Scenario 9.2 Consider a Publicly Held Firm (One Whose Stock Shares Are

Scenario 9.2
Consider a publicly held firm (one whose stock shares are traded on the stock exchange) that earned revenue worth $350 million and incurred land, labor, and debt costs worth $320 million. The stockholders who have invested a total of $100 million in this firm could have earned 10 percent return on other comparable investments.
-At the profit-maximizing output level, an increase in price by a perfectly competitive firm will:

A) cause an increase in profits.
B) reduce total cost more than total revenue.
C) increase total revenue more than total cost.
D) increase total cost more than total revenue.
E) cause the firm to lose all of its sales.