The use of the word monopoly in the name of the market structure called monopolistic competition refers to the fact that ?

A. a monopolistically competitive firms faces a downward-sloping demand curve for its differentiated product and so does a monopolist

B. monopolistically competitive markets have free entry and exit just like a monopolistic market

C. monopolistically competitive firms produce beyond their efficient scale and so do monopolists

D. monopolistically competitive firms charge prices equal to their marginal costs just like monopolists

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