Which statement is false? a monopoly sells lower-quality products at higher prices than in a perfect competition. natural monopolies are necessary to avoid wasteful duplication of resources. collusion is legal in the united states, but cartels are not. the start-up costs in a monopolistically competitive industry are low. homogeneous products leave consumers with no choice.

answer: in october 1962, an american u-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the soviet union on the island of cuba. president kennedy did not want the soviet union and cuba to know that he had discovered the missiles. he met in secret with his advisors for several days to discuss the problem.

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the anwser is a) to prevent military conflict