The managers of Movies Plus, a large movie theater, want to practice third-degree price discrimination. The managers have learned that college students have an own price elasticity of demand of 4.0 for tickets at Movies Plus and adults have an own price elasticity of 2.0. If the managers have correctly determined the third-degree profit-maximizing price for adults is $10, what is the third-degree

profit-maximizing price to charge students?

A) $5.50 B) $15.00 C) $6.67 D) $12.00


C) $6.67

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