O'Brien and Tony own the only pub in a small town in New York They have two different views on Price and Quantity. • O'Brien wants to sell as many drinks as possible without losing money • Tony wants to bring in as much profit as possible On the same graph (one graph) show the output and price decisions of O'Brien and Tony with explanation.

O'Brien and Tony own the only pub in a small town in New York They have two different views on Price and Quantity. • O'Brien wants to sell as many drinks as possible without losing money • Tony wants to bring in as much profit as possible On the same graph (one graph) show the output and price decisions of O'Brien and Tony with explanation.

Exploring Economics

8th Edition

ISBN:9781544336329

Author:Robert L. Sexton

Publisher:Robert L. Sexton

Chapter14: Monopolistic Competition And Product Differentiation

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 15P

See similar textbooks

Similar questions

2. There are probably 20 or more brands of laundry detergent in the grocery store where your family shops, Make a list of different ways in which producers try to differentiate one detergent brand from Why can some brands have prices that are much higher than the price of others and still sell well?
JYour business has the capacity to produce up to 5 units/week. The table & graph below show average cost (AC) for different weekly production levels. Your objective is to maximize profit each week. Average Cost 22 20 AC 18 1 20 14 2 15 12 3 12 10 1 2 4 4 13 Quantity 15 Your product sells in the market for $21/unit, and you can sell as many units at that price as you can bring to market. You know from your economics training that deciding how much to produce should rely on marginal concepts like marginal cost (MC). So, based on the AC table above, create a table that shows the MC of each unit. (Assume that there are no fixed costs, so total costs are zero if Q=0.) Based on MC for each unit, determine the profit-maximizing quantity to produce and sell. BRIEFLY explain your answer. (Your answer needs to be based on MC and being able to sell each unit for $21.) AC ($/unit)
2. The gains and loss from selling one more unit Sean's Fire Engines is the sole seller of fire engines in the fictional country of Pyrotania. Initially, Sean produced seven fire engines, but he has decided to increase production to eight fire engines. The following graph shows the demand curve Sean faces. As you can see, to sell the additional engine, Sean must lower his price from $100,000 to $50,000 per fire engine. Note that although Sean gains revenue from the additional engine he sells, he also loses revenue from the initial seven engines because he sells them all at the lower price. Use the purple rectangle (diamond symbols) to shade the area representing the revenue lost from the initial seven engines by selling at $50,000 rather than $100,000. Then use the green rectangle (triangle symbols) to shade the area representing the revenue gained from selling an additional engine at $50,000.
Use a diagram to describe block pricing of a supermarket product
3. A local firm produces three types of pizza, for delivery to homes in the area. The owners have completed research, to discover the demand curves for each of the three pizzas. The schedules are shown below: (Quantities are per week). Price Pizza A (Qd) Pizza B (Qd) Pizza C (Qd) 12 800 100 11 840 200 10 880 400 300 9. 920 800 400 8 960 1200 500 1000 1600 600 1040 2000 700 1080 2400 800 Plot the three demand curves, on one graph. a) Calculate the Market demand for Pizza. b) Calculate Price Elasticity of Demand for all three pizzas over the price range £9 to £10. c) For pizza C only, what price must be charged if the firm wishes to maximize its sales revenue? II
Draw a graph of Pepsi company that related to the product differentiation. Please asap.
Del's and Rodney's are two plumbing services in a gentrifying area of South East London. Within the area they service, the two firms operate as a duopoly and together serve one hundred percent of the available local market. One of their key lines of business is visiting customer's homes to install a new shower rail. A student project has been investigating the local plumbing business and has estimated the following information for Del's and Rodney's: Total demand for new shower rails per week is given by P = 200 - 4Q Where Q is total market demand and can be divided between Del's (qd) and Rodney's (qr) such that Q = qd + qr Assuming that the marginal cost of serving an extra customer is £40 for each, and that marginal revenue for Del is given by MRd 2008qd - 4qr And marginal revenue for Rodney is given by MRr Then 2008qr - 4qd 8 CONTINUED
HOW STARBUCKS USES PRICING STRATEGY FOR PROFIT MAXIMIZATION In January 2020, Starbucks raised their beverage prices by an average of 1% across the U.S, a move that represented the company’s first significant price increase in 18 months. I failed to notice because the price change didn’t affect grande or venti (medium and large) brewed coffees and I don’t mess with smaller sizes, but anyone who purchases tall size (small) brews saw as much as a 10 cent increase. The company’s third quarter revenue rose 25% to $417.8 million from $333.1 million a year earlier, and green coffee prices have plummeted, so what gives? Starbucks claims the price increase is due to rising labor and non-coffee commodity costs, but with the significantly lower coffee costs already improving their profit margins, it seems unlikely this justification is the true reason for the hike in prices. In addition, the price hike was applied to less than a third of their beverages and only targets certain…
If you want to increase demand for your restaurantbut are unable to lower prices or increase advertising,what steps might you take?
Answer the following questions based on the accompanying graph. Price ATC MC $11 $8 $5 $3 MR D 200 300 Quantity a. What are the profit-maximizing price and quantity? b. At the profit-maximizing price and quantity, what are the total profits or losses made by this firm?
6. Hongxing has developed a popular self-hypnosis course. She sells the course two ways: through a well advertised company website for a price of $150 and at an e- Bay storefront for $100. Her cost of producing and selling the courses depends only on the total number of courses she sells. Using one or more diagrams, explain Hongxing's pricing strategy. Be sure to cover (a) how Hongxing will decide the price and quantity to sell through each store, (b) what conditions must be met for Hongxing's pricing strategy to work, and (c) whether it is reasonable to assume these conditions are met in this example.
Sally runs a vegetable stand The following table shows two points on the demand curve for the heirloom tomatoes she sells Price Quantity demanded per week $4.00 100,000 200,000 $2.75 Sally's marginal revenue from lowering the price of tomatoes from $4.00 to $2. 75 is S (Enter your response rounded to two decimal places) Lowering the price trom $4 00 to $2 75 results in an output effect of $and a price effect of S (Enter your responses as whole numbers and include a minus sign i necessary)