Farmer Brown produces and sells wheat in a perfectly competitive market. At the current market price of $5 a bushel, she makes an economic profit of $45,000 per year. What do you expect to happen in the market for wheat?
Farmer Brown will produce more wheat next year in order to increase her profit.
More firms will enter this industry causing the market price to fall.
Farmer Brown will leave this industry and return to teaching agriculture at the local state university where she made $65,000/year.
There is not enough information to know.
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