11. Suppose that you develop a software product called "EconSolver" which takes in the parameters of an economic problem and first determines how to solve it and then solves it. You have two potential markets for this product: corporations (c) and students (s). The demand schedules you have estimated are: Price Dc 300 10 275 11 250 12 225 13 200 14 175 15 150 16 Ds 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 Production, distribution and software support costs are estimated to be $50 per copy for each type of customer. (i) Assume that you could only charge one price for this product regardless of customer type. What would that price be and how much profit would you make? (ii) Assume that you could practice 3rd degree price discrimination in this market. What price would you charge each customer type and what would your total profits be? (iii) Use the language of economics to explain why 3rd degree price discrimination works in this example.

11. Suppose that you develop a software product called "EconSolver" which takes in the parameters of an economic problem and first determines how to solve it and then solves it. You have two potential markets for this product: corporations (c) and students (s). The demand schedules you have estimated are: Price Dc 300 10 275 11 250 12 225 13 200 14 175 15 150 16 Ds 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 Production, distribution and software support costs are estimated to be $50 per copy for each type of customer. (i) Assume that you could only charge one price for this product regardless of customer type. What would that price be and how much profit would you make? (ii) Assume that you could practice 3rd degree price discrimination in this market. What price would you charge each customer type and what would your total profits be? (iii) Use the language of economics to explain why 3rd degree price discrimination works in this example.

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