Chapter1: Making Economics Decisions
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Transcribed Image Text:a. What is the monopolist's profit-maximizing output and price?
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Price: $
b. What will be the monopolist's total profit?

Transcribed Image Text:The graph below shows the cost and revenue curves for IchiBan Inc., a monopolist.
Revenues and costs
20
18
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
(85, 14)
10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100110120
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Step 1: Define profit maximization:-
If a firm wants to maximise its profits, it will produce the amount at which its marginal cost of production equals its marginal income from that production.
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