A small town has two bakeries, Acme and Fat Apple. Acme's marginal cost to make loaf of bread is $1 and Fat Apple's marginal cost is $2. Acme's demand function is given as Q₁ = 14 - P₁ -0.5P2 and Fat Apple's demand function is Q2 = 19 -0.5P1 - P2 where P₁ (P2) is Acme (Fat Apple)'s price in dollars per loaf of break and Q₁ (Q2) is measured in thousand loaves of Amce (FatApple)'s bread (respectively). Find best response functions.P₁ = 7.5 -0.25P2 and P2 = 10.5 -0.25P₁.OP₁ = 7.5 -0.25P2 and P2 = 10.5 -0.5P₁.OP₁ = 7.5 -0.5P2 and P2 = 10.5 -0.5P1.P₁ = 10.5 -0.25P2 and P2 = 10.5 -0.25P₁.

A small town has two bakeries, Acme and Fat Apple. Acme's marginal cost to make a loaf of bread is $1 and Fat Apple's marginal cost is $2. Acme's demand function is given as Q₁ = 14 - P₁ - 0.5P2 and Fat Apple's demand function is Q2 = 19-0.5P1 P2 where P1 (P2) is Acme (Fat Apple)'s price in dollars per loaf of break and Q1₁ (Q2) is measured in thousand loaves of Amce (Fat Apple)'s bread (respectively). Find best response functions. P₁ = 7.5 -0.25P2 and P2 = 10.5 -0.25P1. O P₁ = 7.5 -0.25P2 and P2 = 10.5 -0.5P₁. O P₁ = 7.5 -0.5P2 and P2 = 10.5 -0.5P1. O P₁ = 10.5 -0.25P2 and P2 = 10.5 -0.25P₁.

A small town has two bakeries, Acme and Fat Apple. Acme's marginal cost to make a loaf of bread is $1 and Fat Apple's marginal cost is $2. Acme's demand function is given as Q₁ = 14 - P₁ - 0.5P2 and Fat Apple's demand function is Q2 = 19-0.5P1 P2 where P1 (P2) is Acme (Fat Apple)'s price in dollars per loaf of break and Q1₁ (Q2) is measured in thousand loaves of Amce (Fat Apple)'s bread (respectively). Find best response functions. P₁ = 7.5 -0.25P2 and P2 = 10.5 -0.25P1. O P₁ = 7.5 -0.25P2 and P2 = 10.5 -0.5P₁. O P₁ = 7.5 -0.5P2 and P2 = 10.5 -0.5P1. O P₁ = 10.5 -0.25P2 and P2 = 10.5 -0.25P₁.

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