Question

Suppose quantity demanded is 2,000 when price is $10 and 3,000 when price is $5. If a monopolist who was initially charging a price of $10 discovers a way to price discriminate, it will be able to increase revenue from $20,000 to:

Answer 1

$25,000 by charging consumers with more elastic demand only $5 and keeping the price for consumers with less elastic demand at $10

Step-by-step explanation:

Price discrimination refers to the differentiation in the price of the product for every consumer that means the company charged different prices from the different customers

Also, in this it charges from the consumers having more elastic demand at less price. Here 2,000 units are purchased at $10 and the 1,000 units are purchased at $5 so the total quantity demanded is 3,000

The 25,000 units come from

= 2,000 ($10) + 1,000 ($5)

= 20,000 + 5,000

= 25,000