Suppose the average student’s demand for a team's football tickets is as follows:
Price $20 $14 $10 $7 $5
Quantity 1 2 3 4 5
a. If this team is a profit maximizer and it can only sell single game tickets, what price will they charge, how many tickets will the average student buy, and how much profit will the college make per student (assuming MC = 0)?
b. If this team is a profit maximizer but instead sells season-tickets for all 5 home games, what price will the college charge and how much profit will the college make per student?
c. Give at least 2 other reasons besides higher ticket revenue why this team would prefer to sell season tickets rather than individual game tickets.
Price | Quantity | TR | MR | |||||||||||
20 | 1 | 20 | 20 | |||||||||||
14 | 2 | 28 | 8 | |||||||||||
10 | 3 | 30 | 2 | |||||||||||
7 | 4 | 28 | -2 | |||||||||||
5 | 5 | 25 | -3 | |||||||||||
a) The team will sell till MR > MC. Therefore firm will sell 3 tickets. | ||||||||||||||
b) | ||||||||||||||
Price | Quantity | TR | MR | |||||||||||
20 | 5 | 100 | 20 | |||||||||||
14 | 10 | 140 | 40 | |||||||||||
10 | 15 | 150 | 10 | |||||||||||
7 | 20 | 140 | -10 | |||||||||||
5 | 25 | 125 | -15 | |||||||||||
The team will now sell 15 tickets. | ||||||||||||||
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