(a) Draw a correctly labeled graph for a single-price monopoly and show the profit-maximizing quantity, labeled Q1.   (b) Assume the monopoly now engages in perfect price discrimination. On your graph in part (a), show the profit-maximizing quantity for the price-discriminating monopoly, labeled Q2. (c) Based on your answer in part (b), what will happen to the consumer surplus? Explain. (d) Is the output produced by the perfectly price-discriminating monopolist allocatively efficient? Explain.

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(a) Draw a correctly labeled graph for a single-price monopoly and show the profit-maximizing quantity, labeled Q1.

 

(b) Assume the monopoly now engages in perfect price discrimination. On your graph in part (a), show the profit-maximizing quantity for the price-discriminating monopoly, labeled Q2.

(c) Based on your answer in part (b), what will happen to the consumer surplus? Explain.

(d) Is the output produced by the perfectly price-discriminating monopolist allocatively efficient? Explain.

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