How much will the hotel charge members of each group for the vacation package if it could identify the members in each group? ii. How much will the profit for Ben Services be? iii. Since Ben Services is not able to identify members of each group, what price should it charge for each product?
Management of Ben Services identified two groups of individuals that would be interested in the vacation package consisting of room and board and/or entertainment. The maximum amount that group 1 is willing to pay for room and board is GHC 2500 and for entertainment is GHC 500. For group 2, the maximum
amount they are willing to pay for room and board is GHC 1800 and for
entertainment is GHC 750. Although Ben is not able to identify members of either group, it does know that each group values the components of the package differently. Assuming there are an equal number of members in each group and that the total membership in each group is a single individual. If the marginal cost of providing the service (room and board and/or entertainment) to each group is GHC 1000.
i. How much will the hotel charge members of each group for the vacation package if it could identify the members in each group?
ii. How much will the profit for Ben Services be?
iii. Since Ben Services is not able to identify members of each group, what
iv. What will be the profit for Ben Services in the case of (iii) above?
v. If Ben Services wants to charge a package price, what is the highest price it can charge?
vi. What profit will Ben Services make if it charges the package price
found in (v) above?
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