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Scenario: A Small-Town Monopolist
A monopolist sells cable subscriptions in a small town and finds that it can sell 100 subscriptions when the price is $15 a week and an additional 75 subscriptions when the price is $10 a week. The MC for the provision of the cable is $5 a week. There are no fixed costs.
-(Scenario: A Small-Town Monopolist) Look at the scenario A Small-Town Monopolist. Compared to charging a single price, the deadweight loss:
A) increases when this monopolist price-discriminates.
B) decreases when this monopolist price-discriminates.
C) stays the same when this monopolist price-discriminates.
D) is equal to zero.

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Price discrimination allows the monopolist to capture more consumer surplus and sell additional units closer to the marginal cost, reducing deadweight loss compared to a single price strategy.

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