At the profit-maximizing level of output, a purely competitive firm will .

a. produce the quantity of output at which marginal cost equals price

b. produce the quantity of output at which marginal cost is minimized

c. keep marginal cost lower than price, so profits will be greater than zero

d. try to sell all the output it can produce, to spread fixed costs across the largest possible number of units

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