For many pure public goods like fireworks displays, weather forecasts, and television broadcasts the marginal cost of serving one more consumer is ________, and the optimal quantity of the public good occurs when ________.
A) zero; provision is infinite.
B) determined by average cost rather than marginal cost; price equals average cost.
C) greater than the average cost; the government provides the good.
D) zero; the marginal benefit of the public good equals zero.
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