One prolonged blast from the horn of a vessel serves as a warning to other ships that an unseen vessel is in the water. Any vessels within earshot of the prolonged horn blast should reply with a prolonged blast of their own.
A firm is likely to be a price taker whenâ¦.. it sells a product that is exactly the same as every other firm. It represents a small fraction of the total market. Consumers are usually price takers when they buy most goods and services because ____, while relatively few firms are price takers because ____.
Under perfect competition, a firm is a price taker of its good since none of the firms can individually influence the price of the good to be purchased or sold. As the objective of each perfectly competitive firm, they choose each of their output levels to maximize their profits.