The Table Below Shows Annual Profits Received by Two Oligopolists

The table below shows annual profits received by two oligopolists, Alpha and Beta, depending on whether each company decides whether to live within the collusive agreement they have signed to charge a high price, or to cheat and charge a lower price.

$\begin{array}{}& \text {beta's Strategies }\\ \text {AlPHA'sStrategies }&\begin{array}{|l|c|c|}\hline & \begin{array}{c}\text { Don't } \\\text { }\end{array} & \text { Cheat } \\\hline \text { Don'tCheat} & \begin{array}{c}\text { B: } \$ 5 \mathrm{~m} \\\text { A: } \$ 5 \mathrm{~m}\end{array} & \begin{array}{c}\text { B: } \$ 6 \mathrm{~m} \\\text { A } \$ 3 \mathrm{~m}\end{array} \\\hline & \begin{array}{c}\text { B: } \$ 3 \mathrm{~m}\end{array} & \text { B: } \$ 4 \mathrm{~m} \\ \text { Cheat } & \$ 6 \mathrm{~m} & \text { A: } \$ 4 \mathrm{~m} \\\hline\end{array}\\\end{array}$
-Under the 1986 Competition Act,mergers can be prevented only if:

A) they result in an unacceptable lessening of competition
B) they are in the same industry
C) they result in more than half the industry's output being controlled by one company
D) the companies are controlled by non-residents
E) the companies are government-owned