Answer 1 a : Yes the above scanerio is an example of price discrimination. Price discrimination means charging different price from different customers. Providing coupon at discounted rate is a result of charging incentives to the customer on Sunday .Here the newspaper discriminate on the basis of the price. They charged different price from the customer as in case of providing incentives.
b : Difference between second degree and third degree price discrimination are :
Answer c : point price elasticity of demand =% change in qty / % change in price = 20%/5%= 4
Optimal mark up price = ( e p / 1+e p) MC
P= ( 4/1+4)*100= (4/5)*100= 80
Question 3 a) In the Sunday newspaper, there are usually coupons that you can clip and...