With very few Food and Drug Administration–approved nonprescription weight loss drugs on the market, the pharmaceutical companies that produce these over-the-counter medications can establish what kind of pricing goal?
a. Cost-plus pricing
b. Profit-maximizing pricing
c. Sliding payment scale
d. Price-discrimination pricing
ANS: B
Profit-maximizing pricing tries to set the maximum price that demand for the product or service will bear.
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