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Transcribed Image Text:The market supply and market demand curves for a magazine highlighting events
and happenings for a metropolitan area are illustrated in the figure to the right
5.00
4.50-
4.00
If the magazine publisher charges a weekly subscription price of $3.00, what will
be the resulting deadweight loss, if any?
Supplya
Deadweight loss will be $2 thousand. (Enter your response rounded to two
decimal places.)
3.50-
3.00
2.50
2.00-
1.50
1.00
0.50
8
CO
Demand
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 789 10
Quantity (subscriptions per week in 1000s)
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