Now assume that the bottled water market is a monopoly because of even more mergers. Illustrate graphically the monopolist’s: profit, quantity, price and deadweight loss. If the monopolist can perfectly price discriminate, what happens to your answers? Given this, is price discrimination a good or bad thing for a monopolist to pursue? (please help with the graph!!)

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