A Movie Theater Is a Price-Discriminating Monopolist and Charges a Higher

question 153

Multiple Choice

A movie theater is a price-discriminating monopolist and charges a higher ticket price for late-evening showings. From this we know that:

• A) late-evening moviegoers have perfectly inelastic demand schedules.
• B) late-evening moviegoers have less elastic demands than daytime or early-evening moviegoers.
• C) late-evening moviegoers have more elastic demands than daytime or early-evening moviegoers.
• D) daytime and early-evening moviegoers have perfectly elastic demands.

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