When both players in a game play a dominant strategy,the outcome will be
A) Pareto optimal.
B) a Prisoners' Dilemma.
C) a Stackelberg equilibrium.
D) the game's only Nash equilibrium.

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When both players play a dominant strategy, the game reaches its only Nash equilibrium. Therefore, the correct answer is D. Option A is incorrect because Pareto optimality requires both players to cooperate and achieve a mutually beneficial outcome. Option B is incorrect because the Prisoner's Dilemma is a specific type of game where both players have a dominant strategy, but the outcome is not necessarily the only Nash equilibrium. Option C is incorrect because the Stackelberg equilibrium is a situation where one player is a leader and the other is a follower, and the equilibrium is reached when the leader maximizes their payoff while taking the follower's responses into account.

When Both Players in a Game Play a Dominant Strategy,the