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Transcribed Image Text:You have been commissioned to estimate the demand curve for admission to Lake
Saint- Michel, a recreational fishing site in France. To do this, you spend a day
surveying visitor to the site.
You divide the area around the site into 3 zones. You ask each person you interview
where they come from. Based on that information, and figures on annual attendance
at the park, you are able to calculate the annual number of visitors from each zone.
Your data are shown below.
For each zone, the total travel cost
1 euro per person for each kilometer traveled
to and from the site.
One-Way
Distance from
Park
Origin
Total
Number of
Population
Users
(in kilometer)
A
6.25
125,000
18,750
B
12.5
937,500
93,750
18.75
1,250,000
62,500
b.
Suppose a fee were charged to enter the site. What is the per capita
demand function for each origin? Please express the relationship in
an equation.
Calculate the number of visitors and consumer surplus if no fee were
C.
charged to enter the park.
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