Micro Unit 4 Practice Sheet
Micro Unit 4 Practice Sheet
8. At the price of $120, is the demand relatively elastic, relatively inelastic, or unit elastic? Why?
9. Identify the price and quantity if this monopoly’s fixed costs increase by $140.
10. Identify the profit maximizing price and quantity if the government levies a $30 per unit tax on this
monopoly.
11. Identify the profit maximizing price and quantity if this monopoly figures out a way to perfectly price
discriminate.
12. Assume instead that the costs of production changed for this monopoly so that the marginal cost (MC)
and average total cost (ATC) for every unit was $80. Under these new circumstances, identify the
profit maximizing price and quantity.
13. Calculate the new total revenue at the profit maximizing price and quantity.
14. Calculate the new total cost at the profit maximizing price and quantity.
15. Calculate the new profit or loss at the profit maximizing price and quantity.
21. Is this firm experiencing economies of scale at the profit maximizing quantity? Explain.
26. Assume instead that these firms decide to collude to maximize profit. What will each firm decide to do?