Table 93 Julie Plans to Start a Pet-Sitting Service

question 31

Multiple Choice

Table 9.3 Julie plans to start a pet-sitting service.She surveyed her neighbourhood to determine the demand for this service.Assume that each person surveyed demands only one hour of pet sitting services per period.Table 9.3 above shows a portion of her survey results.
-Refer to Table 9.3.Suppose Julie's marginal cost of providing this service is constant at $7 and she charges each customer according to his or her willingness to pay instead of a uniform price of $7.Which of the following statements is true?

• A)Julie is worse off because the demand for her services is reduced.
• B)Julie has converted the consumer surplus (from a uniform price)into economic profit.
• C)Julie's customers are better off because their consumer surplus has increased.
• D)Julie's has converted the producer surplus (from a uniform price)into consumer surplus.

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Definitions:

Perceptual Constancies

The tendency to perceive objects as unchanging, despite changes in sensory input, such as changes in illumination, angle, or distance.

Bottom-Up Processing

A perceptual approach where processing begins with the sensory input and works up to the formation of a perceptual experience.

Perceptual Hypotheses

A theory in psychology suggesting that perception involves the brain's activity of generating theories about what objects in the external world are most likely to account for the sensory information it receives.

Binocular Depth Cues

Visual information that the brain uses to determine the depth and distance of objects, requiring both eyes.