Explanation
Monopolistic competition refers to the competition where the market has large number of buyers and sellers who deals in differentiated products with excess production capacity in the long run and full control over the price where freedom of entry and exit of new firms is restricted by patents, investment etc. Under this competition the firms will shut down in the short run if the losses are more than its fixed cost which means that the firms are not even covering their variable cost.
Perfect competition is a type of market where there are huge number of buyers and sellers who deals in the same type of product due to which no individual unit is able to influence the price of the product.
And the seller have to quote the price that prevails in the market which usually remains uniform due to such large involvement of the masses. Therefore, agriculture is the best example of a perfectly competitive market.
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