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Chapter 16, Problem 7QE
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The monopolist willing to spend to protect the market position.
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Question 4: The Baxter brothers - Bob, Bill, Ben and Brad – have just made a documentary movie about their basketball
team. They are thinking about making the movie available for download on the internet. They can act as a monopolist if
they choose to do so. Each time the movie is downloaded, their Internet Service Provider charges them a fee of $4. The
Baxter brothers are arguing about which price to charge the customer per download. Here is the demand schedule for
their film:
Quantity of Downloads
Denanded
Price of
Download
$10
4
6.
2
10
15
a) Calculate the total revenue and marginal revenue per download.
Price
Quantity
TR
MR
$10
6.
3
10
15
b) Bill is proud of the film and wants as many people as possible to download it. What price would he choose?
How many downloads would be sold?
c) Bob wants as much total revenue as possible. What price would he choose? How many downloads would be
sold?
d) Ben wants to maximize profits. What price would he choose? How many downloads would be sold?…
1. Which of the following companies most closely resembles a monopoly?
Walmart
Microsoft
Starbucks
McDonald's
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Chapter 16 Solutions
Microeconomics
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