Intercontinental’s special order requires 1,800 kilograms of genatope, a solid chemical regularly used in the company’s products. the current stock of genatope is 8,400 kilograms at a book value of 9.20 p per kilogram. if the special order is accepted, the firm will be forced to restock genatope earlier than expected, at a predicted cost of 9.80 p per kilogram. without the special order, the purchasing manager predicts that the price will be 9.40 p when normal restocking takes place. any order of genatope must be in the amount of 5,300 kilograms. what is the relevant cost of genatope (in pesos (

Consider the local telephone company, a natural monopoly. the following graph shows the monthly demand curve for phone services and the company’s marginal revenue (mr), marginal cost (mc), and average total cost (atc) curves. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 price (dollars per subscription) quantity (thousands of subscriptions) d mr mc atc 8, 60 suppose that the government has decided not to regulate this industry, and the firm is free to maximize profits, without constraints. complete the first row of the following table. pricing mechanism short run long-run decision quantity price profit (subscriptions) (dollars per subscription) profit maximization marginal-cost pricing average-cost pricing suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to marginal cost. complete the second row of the previous table. suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to average total cost. complete the third row of the previous table. under average-cost pricing, the government will raise the price of output whenever a firm’s costs increase, and lower the price whenever a firm’s costs decrease. over time, under the average-cost pricing policy, what will the local telephone company most likely do