1. PRICE DISCRIMINATION (Hint: Review Pages 400-408) Suppose you are given the following set of graphs for Prentice Hall (PH), the publisher which publishes the textbook for our course and sells in more than one market. Prentice Hall can act as a Monopoly since students buy/used textbooks as prescribed by the professor of the course. (a) Country 1 (b) Country 2 (c) Single-Price Monopoly 9 2, $ per book p, $ per book P,, $ per book 6 4 3.5 MP D2 MR D 1 = MC MC 1 MC 12 9 9 21 Q,, Books per day Q2, Books per day Q, Books per day Based on this graph, answer the following questions: (SHOW ALL CALCULATIONS TO ECEIVE CREDIT - NOT JUST THE FINAL ANSWERS) a) If Prentice Hall acts as a single price monopoly and uses a common price, what will be the total revenues as compared with what PH earns if it engages in price discrimination? b) What are the economic rationales for charging a higher price in Country 2 vs Country 1? c) What are the conditions needed for PII to continue to engage in price discrimination? d) What will be the difference in profit levels of a single price monopoly vs a discriminating monopolist if the average costs is $3 per unit in common all the three scenarios