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Dvinal [7]
3 years ago
15

Explain why purely competitive markets tend to benefit consumers over producers.

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1 answer:
marissa [1.9K]3 years ago
7 0
As competitive markets are driven by quantity of product sales and vendors tend to lower prices to ensure sales.
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