Predatory Pricing

question 42

Multiple Choice

Predatory pricing:

• A) occurs when a large company sets price below cost to drive smaller firms out of business.
• B) is the practice of selling the same good at different prices to different consumers.
• C) means setting a very high price for a product to signal high product quality.
• D) occurs when firms in a market collude to set a high price for the product.
• E) occurs when a firm extracts price reductions from its suppliers.

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Definitions:

Variable Manufacturing Costs

Costs that vary directly with the level of production output, such as raw materials, labor, and energy consumption.

Cost-Plus Pricing

A pricing strategy where a fixed percentage is added to the total cost of producing a product to determine its selling price.

Mark-Up Percentage

The fraction that is added onto the cost price of items to include overhead costs and profit within the selling price.

Cost-Plus Pricing

A pricing method that involves adding a consistent percentage markup to the total production cost of a product or service to set its sale price.