Price taker: A firm in perfect competition that must accept the market price because it is too small to influence the market.
How to apply it: Explain that for a price taker, price equals marginal revenue equals average revenue: P = MR = AR.
Course: AP Microeconomics · Unit: Production, Cost, and the Perfect Competition Model
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