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the practice of selling the same good or service to different consumers at different prices is called ______________ discrimination
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price
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the pure monopoly extracts all surplus from consumers, yielding higher profits than any other pricing method when it employs which of the following?
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-first-degree price discrimination
-personal pricing
-perfect price discrimination
-personal pricing
-perfect price discrimination
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firms use price discrimination to:
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increase their profits
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second-degree price discrimination is also known as ___________ pricing
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block
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by charging consumers the highest price they are willing and able to pay, ____________ extracts all surplus from consumers, yielding higher profits than any other pricing method available to the firm
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a pure monopoly
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the practice of charging each and every consumer the price that she is willing and able to pay for a good or service describes
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-personal pricing
-first-degree price discrimination
-perfect price discrimination
-first-degree price discrimination
-perfect price discrimination
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the practice of selling the same good or service to different consumers at different prices is called...
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price discrimination
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the practice of charging different prices per unit for different quantities, or blocks, of a good or service is called:
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-second-degree price discrimination
-block pricing
-block pricing
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price discrimination is only possible when a firm is a price _______________
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maker
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the pure monopoly extracts all surplus from consumers, yielding higher profits than any other pricing method when it employs which of the following?
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-first-degree price discrimination
-perfect price discrimination
-personal pricing
-perfect price discrimination
-personal pricing
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in a pure monopoly, the firm is willing to sell anyone willing and able to pay at least the marginal cost of production
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the result is that output is produced where D = MC