(Table: Prices and Demand) the New Orleans Saints Have a Monopoly

question 7

Essay

(Table: Prices and Demand) The New Orleans Saints have a monopoly on Saints logo baseball hats.The Saints sell at most one hat to each customer, and the table shows each customer's willingness to pay.The marginal cost of producing a hat is $18.If the Saints were a perfectly competitive firm in a perfectly competitive industry, their profit-maximizing price and output total surplus would be _.If the Saints were a profit-maximizing monopoly, total
surplus would be _.
A.$0; $0
B.$27; $36
C.$36; $27
D.$18; $27

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Definitions:

Inverse Demand Function

A function that reflects the relationship between the price of a good and the quantity demanded, solving for price as a function of quantity.

Stackelberg Leader

An economic model of strategic interaction between firms in which one firm (the leader) moves first and the others (followers) adapt, leading to a determined outcome based on the leader's decision.

Total Cost Function

The sum of all costs associated with the production of goods or services, including both fixed and variable costs, as a function of output level.

Profit Function

It describes a company's earnings or losses by relating total revenue to total costs, identifying the maximum profit available to a firm.