The top six firms in an industry have a total sales of the following respectively $54million, $47million, $45million, $40million, $30million, $25million; total industry sales are $261million.  for this industry, what is the firm 4-firm concentration ratio?  based on the value calculated, what market structures does this industry represent? Why?

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