3. The maker of a leading brand of lowcalorie microwavable food estimated the following demand equation for its product using data from 26 supermarkets around the country for the month of April: Q = 5,200 42P + 2036 + 5.2l + 0.20A + 0.25M i (2.002} (115} {5.2) (2.5) (0.09} {0.21} R2=r155 n=26 F2488 Assume the following values for the independent variables: Q 2 Quantity sold per month P {in cents) 2 Price of the product 2 500 Pa: {in cents} : Price of leading competitor's product : 600 | {in dollars) : Per capita income of the standard metropolitan statistical area [SMSN in which the supermarket is located 2 5,500 A (in dollars} 2 Monthly advertising expenditure 2 10,000 M = Number of microwave ovens sold in the SMSA in which the supermarket is located 2 5,000 Using this information, answer the following questions: a. Compute elasticities for each variable. b. How concerned do you think this company would be about the impact of a recession on its sales? Explain. c. Do you think that this rm should cut its price to increase its market share? Explain. d. What proportion of the variation in sales is explained by the independent variables in the equations? How condent are you about this answer? Explain