Question 1 A student club wants to raise just enough income to cover its costs. Its income comes partly from membership fees and partly from selling tickets for its nightly discos. Attendance at the discos currently leads to overcrowding of the club's room. The demand for membership is price inelastic and the demand for discos is price elastic. To reduce the crowding without changing its total income, what should the club do?
Question 1 A student club wants to raise just enough income to cover its costs. Its income comes partly from membership fees and partly from selling tickets for its nightly discos. Attendance at the discos currently leads to overcrowding of the club's room. The demand for membership is price inelastic and the demand for discos is price elastic. To reduce the crowding without changing its total income, what should the club do?
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Question 1
A student club wants to raise just enough income to cover its costs. Its income comes
partly from membership fees and partly from selling tickets for its nightly discos.
Attendance at the discos currently leads to overcrowding of the club's room. The demand
for membership is price inelastic and the demand for discos is price elastic. To reduce the
crowding without changing its total income, what should the club do?
a) Raise both the disco ticket price and the membership fee.
b) Lower both the disco ticket price and the membership fee.
c) Raise the disco ticket price but lower the membership fee.
d) Lower the disco ticket price but raise the membership fee.
Question 2
Suppose the price of a product increases from £12 to £20 and the quantity demanded falls
from 55 a week to 45. What is the PED?
a) 0.4
b) -0.4
c) 2.5
d)-2.5
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