Refer to the Accompanying Table to Answer the Questions $\text { Willingness to Pay for Bottled Water }$

question 95

Multiple Choice

Refer to the accompanying table to answer the questions. $\text { Willingness to Pay for Bottled Water }$
$\begin{array}{lccc}\text { Quantity } & \text { City A } & \text { City B } & \text { City C } \\1 & \$ 20 & \$ 15 & \$ 14 \\2 & \$ 17 & \$ 13 & \$ 13 \\3 & \$ 14 & \$ 11 & \$ 12 \\4 & \$ 11 & \$ 9 & \$ 11 \\5 & \$ 8 & \$ 7 & \$ 10\end{array}$
$\text { Marginal Cost }=\$ 0$
-You are the only provider of bottled water for three cities. Because you have access to a natural spring, the marginal cost to produce an additional bottle is $0. If you could price-discriminate by charging a different price in each city, how many more people would have access to bottled water compared to when you charge only one price for all three cities?

• A) 1 more person
• B) 2 more people
• C) 3 more people
• D) 4 more people
• E) exactly the same number of people

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Definitions:

Marginal Product

The additional output resulting from the use of one more unit of a production input, keeping other inputs constant.

AVC

Average Variable Cost, which is the total variable costs divided by the quantity of output produced.

ATC

A restated definition for Average Total Cost; it implies the cost per unit produced when both fixed and variable costs are accounted for across all levels of output.

AFC

Average Fixed Cost, which is the fixed costs of production spread out over the number of units produced, declining as production increases.