1. An amusement park, whose customer set is made up of two markets, adult and children, has developed demand schedules as follows:

The marginal operating cost of each unit of quantity is $5. (Hint: Because marginal cost is a constant, so is average variable cost. Ignore fixed cost.) The owners of the amusement park want to maximize profits.

1. Calculate the price, quantity, and profit for each segment if the amusement park charges a different price in each market. (Hint: calculate profit at each price in the adult market, then in the child market, and choose profit maximizing in each. Using a spreadsheet would make this task manageable.)

Adult market price (in dollars):

Adult market quantity:

Adult market profit (in dollars):

Child market price (in dollars):

Child market quantity:

Child market profit (in dollars):

Total profit (adult + child, in dollars):

2. Calculate the price, quantity, and profit if the amusement park charges the same price in the two markets combined. (Hint: Add adult and child quantities together, and treat this total and the entire market quantity at each price.)

Market price (in dollars):

Quantity (child + adult at this price):

Profit:

3. Is profit higher, lower, or the same when the market is split with different prices for adults and for children?

A local real estate investor in Orlando is considering five alternative investments: a day spa, a theater, a restaurant, a motel, or a gift shop. Profits from the day spa, theater, gift shop or restaurant will be affected by the cost of gasoline; profits from the restaurant will be relatively stable under any condition.
The following payoff table shows the profit or loss that could result from each investment.
Determine the best investment using the minimax regret decision criterion.

Group of answer choices

Restaurant

Day Spa

Gift Shop

Theater

Motel

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Using Loops for the Hotel Occupancy calculator.

You will write a program that calculates the occupancy of a hotel. Rules: 1# The hotel must have more than 2 floors and less than or equal 5 floors. 2# Each floor in the hotel can have a different number of rooms on the floor. 3# You must set the number of occupied rooms. Again, there must less rooms occupied than the number of rooms. 4# Using the total number of rooms and the total number of occupied rooms calculate the occupancy rate of the hotel. 5# Every input into this program must be checked to see if the numbers are valid.

JAVA

1.Pick the statement that BEST describes the LAW OF DIMINISHING MARGINAL UTILITY.

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SUGAR (and other ingredients) in the making of candy bars is

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A gasoline station, very near a professional football stadium, parks cars on its lot to make money on game days. Last year it charged $10.00 per car and parked 700 cars. This year it lowered the parking price to $6.00 and parked 1,000 cars. Is the demand for this parking lot INELASTIC or ELASTIC?

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Last year, a local amusement park sold 10,000 tickets at $40.00 each. This year, it lowered the ticket price to $30.00 and sold 15,000 tickets. Is the demand for this amusement park INELASTIC or ELASTIC?

7. Application: Elasticity and hotel rooms The following graph input tool shows the daily demand for hotel rooms at the Big Winner Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. To help the hotel management better understand the market, an economist identified three primary factors that affect the demand for rooms each night. These demand factors, along with the values corresponding to the initial demand curve, are shown in the following table and alongside the graph input tool. Demand Factor Initial Value Average American household income $50,000 per year Round trip airfare from Los Angeles (LAX) to Las Vegas (LAS) $100 per round trip Room rate at the Lucky Hotel and Casino, which is near the Big Winner $250 per night Use the graph input tool to help you answer the following questions. You will not be graded on any changes you make to this graph. Note: Once you enter a value in a white field, the graph and any corresponding amounts in each grey field will change accordingly. 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 500 450 400 350 300 250 200 150 100 50 0 PRICE (Dollars per room) QUANTITY (Hotel rooms) Demand Graph Input Tool Market for Big Winner's Hotel Rooms Price (Dollars per room) 200 Quantity Demanded (Hotel rooms per night) 300 Demand Factors Average Income (Thousands of dollars) 50 Airfare from LAX to LAS (Dollars per round trip) 100 Room Rate at Lucky (Dollars per night) 250 For each of the following scenarios, begin by assuming that all demand factors are set to their original values and that Big Winner is charging $200 per room per night. If average household income increases by 10%, from $50,000 to $55,000 per year, the quantity of rooms demanded at the Big Winner from rooms per night to rooms per night. Therefore, the income elasticity of demand is , meaning that hotel rooms at the Big Winner are . If the price of a room at the Lucky were to decrease by 10%, from $250 to $225, while all other demand factors remain at their initial values, the quantity of rooms demanded at the Big Winner from rooms per night to rooms per night. Because the cross-price elasticity of demand is , hotel rooms at the Big Winner and hotel rooms at the Lucky are . Big Winner is debating decreasing the price of its rooms to $175 per night. Under the initial demand conditions, you can see that this would cause its total revenue to . Decreasing the price will always have this effect on revenue when Big Winner is operating on the portion of its demand curve.

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Graph Input Tool

Jill buys a house for $800k, lives there for exactly 10 years and sells it.

Suppose Jill’s annual cost of ownership is exactly equal to the annual rent she would have paid to live in the same house.

Suppose the price of Jill’s house grows 3.4% annually.

Buying expenses are 5% of purchase price and selling expenses are 8% of sale price.

Compute Jill’s annual IRR from owning net of renting.

(hint: look at the buy vs rent slides, assume no mortgage.)

A semiprofessional baseball team near your town plays two home games each month at the local baseball park. The team splits the concessions 50/50 with the city but keeps all the revenue from ticket sales. The city charges the team $500 each month for the three-month season. The team pays the players and manager a total of $2500 each month. The team charges $10 for each ticket, and the average customer spends $8 at the concession stand. Attendance averages 100 people at each home game.

Part 1   (4 points)

The team earns an average of   $   in revenue for each game and   $   of revenue each season.

With total costs of   $   each season, the team finishes the season with   $   of profit.

Part 2   (1 point)

In order to break even, the team needs to sell      tickets for each game. Round to the nearest whole number.

A semiprofessional baseball team near your town plays two home games each month at the local baseball park. The team splits the concessions 50/50 with the city but keeps all the revenue from ticket sales. The city charges the team $100  each month for the three-month season. The team pays the players and manager a total of $1000 each month. The team charges $10 for each ticket, and the average customer spends $8 at the concession stand. Attendance averages 30 people at each home game.

1st attempt

Part 1   (4 points)

The team earns an average of   $   in revenue for each game and   $   of revenue each season.

With total costs of   $   each season, the team finishes the season with   $   of profit.

Part 2   (1 point)

In order to break even, the team needs to sell      tickets for each game. Round to the nearest whole number.

A semiprofessional baseball team near your town plays two home games each month at the local baseball park. The team splits the concessions 50/50 with the city but keeps all the revenue from ticket sales. The city charges the team $500  each month for the three-month season. The team pays the players and manager a total of $2500 each month. The team charges $10 for each ticket, and the average customer spends $7 at the concession stand. Attendance averages 100 people at each home game.

Part 1. The team earns an average of $________________ in revenue for each game and $______________ of revenue each season.

With total costs of $_____________ each season, the team finishes the season with $________________ of profit.

Part 2   In order to break even, the team needs to sell   tickets for each game. Round to the nearest whole number.

Comment on the relationship between 1920s-1940s economics and today's economic conditions. Are there any similarities that you notice? Any key differences?