Institute of Business Management: Final Examinations - FALL 2020
Institute of Business Management: Final Examinations - FALL 2020
Institute of Business Management: Final Examinations - FALL 2020
Course Title: Principle of Microeconomics Course Code: ECO-101 Faculty: Irfan Lal
Section: M-8351
Day / Date: 2, Jan., 2021 Timings: 9 to 12:00
Total Marks: 40
NAME: ZEHRA FATIMA ID: 20201- 27827
Q. 1. Multiple choice questions, Choose the best option on LMS (15 marks)
Q#2, Suppose a firm has a patent on a special process to make a unique smoked salmon
fish. The following table provides information about the demand facing this firm for this
unique product. (6 marks)
Pounds of Fish 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Price 20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6
Total Revenue
Marginal Revenue
c. Suppose that there are no fixed costs and that the marginal cost of production of smoked
salmon fish is constant at $6 per pound. (Thus, the average total cost is also constant at $6
per pound.) What is the quantity and price chosen by the monopolist? What is the profit
earned by the monopolist? Show your solution on the graph you created in part b above.
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d. What is the price and quantity that maximizes total surplus? (1)
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e. Is there a deadweight loss in this market if the monopolist charges the monopoly price?
Explain. (1)
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Q#3. Differentiate (6)
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Q. 4. Explain the concept of Kinked demand for oligopoly using graph and explain when does
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B. A budget constraint is a set of commodity bundles that provide the consumer with the same
level of satisfaction.
C. Indifference curves measure the consumer's willingness to trade one good for another good
while maintaining a constant level of satisfaction.
D. When drawn on a graph that measures the quantity of a good on each axis, indifference
curves are usually straight lines that slope downward (negatively).
E. If two goods are perfect complements, indifference curves associated with these two goods
would cross each other at the optimum.
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