The widget market is competitive and includes no transaction costs. Five suppliers are willing to sell one widget at the following prices: $34, $24, $14, $12, and $10 (one seller at each price). Five buyers are willing to buy one widget at the following prices: $10, $12, $14, $24, and $34 (one buyer at each price). For each price shown in the following table, use the given information to enter the quantity demanded and quantity supplied. Price ($ per widget) Quantity Demanded (widgets) $10 $12 $14 $24 $34 In this market, the equilibrium price will be Quantity Supplied (widgets) 3 2 4 0 5 1 per widget, and the equilibrium quantity will be widgets.

How will you recall price? List five other words that mean the same thing as price. Compare and contrast fixed and variable costs and give an example of each. Explain market-skimming and market-penetration pricing strategies. Why marketers of innovative high-tech products choose market-skimming pricing rather than market-penetration pricing when launching a new product? Justify your answer.

The following table represents the demand schedule (given by the first two columns of the table), TC, MC, TR and MR for one of many landscaping companies in Florida. The service the company provides includes mowing, planting some flowers and trimming trees. Use the information from the table to answer the questions below. The goal of the landscaping company is to maximize its profit. How many customers should it serve per day? What price should it charge? How much profit does this company make per day if it is maximizing its profit?

Suppose you were asked to manage a golf course that was currently charging a uniform price.  Would you suggest that the course continue with this price plan or switch to a two-part pricing plan?  Explain your decision and how you would choose the optimal price.

Identify nine common pricing methods.

Happy Go Lucky Electric Company is the only company providing electric power to the city of Go Lucky. The accompanying graph depicts their marginal costs (MC), total costs (ATC), demand (D), and marginal average t revenue (MR). Move point E to the firm's profit maximizing price and quantity. At the profit maximizing point, what is Happy Go Lucky level of profit? 0 $150 $90 -$30 Price and Costs ($/unit) 10 9 8 7 6 10 4 3 2 1 0 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 MR MC 0 ATC D 40 45 50

Based on Zangwill (1992). Murray Manufacturing runs a day shift and a night shift. Regardless of the number of units produced, the only production cost during a shift is a setup cost. It costs $8000 to run the day shift and $4500 to run the night shift. Demand for the next two days is as follows: day 1, 2000; night 1, 3000; day 2, 2000; night 2, 3000. It costs $1 per unit to hold a unit in inventory for a shift. a. Determine a production schedule that minimizes the sum of setup and inventory costs. All demand must be met on time. (Note: Not all shifts have to be run.) b. After listening to a seminar on the virtues of the Japanese theory of production, Murray has cut the setup cost of its day shift to $1000 per shift and the setup cost of its night shift to $3500 per shift. Now determine a production schedule that minimizes the sum of setup and inventory costs. All demand must be met on time. Show that the decrease in setup costs has actually raised the average inventory level. Is this…

Paulina sells beef in a competitive market where the price is $6 per pound. Her total revenue and total costs are given in the table below. Quantity of beef (lb.) 0 1 2 3 4 A What is the profit-maximizing (or loss minimizing) quantity? B 1 pound 2 pounds 3 pounds Total revenue ($) Total cost ($) 0 4 6 6 12 10 18 15 24 21 D) 4 pounds Profit ($) Marginal revenue ($) Marginal cost ($) Marginal profit ($)

You decide to create a burger restaurant named BurgerDeals to help pay for college fees. The table below contains total pricing information for your single product, large extra-cheese burger. Your town's burger market is fiercely competitive, with big extra-cheese burger selling for $7 on average. Fill in the blanks in the table and answer the following question. What is BurgerDeals TFC?

You’ve probably come across locations along the highway where there’s a Exxon-Mobil gas station on one side of the street and a Shell gas station on the other. The two gas stations are often selling us gasoline at exactly the same price. Why is this occurring?