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A market where homogeneous products are sold with no control over price by an individual firm or a buyer is ______.

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A market where homogeneous products are sold with no control over price by an individual firm or a buyer is ______.

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  • Monopolistically competitive market

  • Perfectly competitive market

  • Monopoly

  • Monopsony

  • Oligopoly

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Solution

A market where homogeneous products are sold with no control over price by an individual firm or a buyer is perfectly competitive market.

Explanation:

In a perfectly competitive market, homogeneous products are sold, with neither particular enterprises nor buyers controlling the price. The market's supply and demand structure decides the price, and all enterprises act as price takers.

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Goyal Brothers Prakashan Economic Applications [English] Class 10 ICSE
Chapter 5 Nature and Structure of Markets
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