The following is a free response question released by the College Board from a previous AP exam to be used as practice for future exams. You can complete the assignment in this document, using the drawing tools in Word (or any photo editing program) or print this document, and complete the activity by hand, submitting a scan or photo of your work. When you are done, submit the assignment for grading by your instructor. This question will be graded out of 7 points.

1. Assume that two firms are operating with identical cost schedules, but one firm is in a perfectly competitive industry and the other is in a monopolistically competitive industry.

(a) Using two correctly labeled graphs, show the long-run equilibrium price and output levels for each of these two firms.

(b) Compare the long-run equilibrium price and output levels for these two firms.

(c) What level of economic profit will each firm earn in the long run? Why do these results occur?

(d) For each of the two firms at the equilibrium quantity, indicate whether the firm’s demand curve is perfectly elastic, inelastic, unit elastic, inelastic, or perfectly inelastic. How can you tell?