Charging a higher price for a motel room to customers with dogs or cats than to customers with no pets is most likely an example of

A) first-degree price discrimination.
B) second-degree price discrimination.
C) third-degree price discrimination.
D) actual cost differences.


D

Economics

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Since 1929, total government taxes as a percentage of GDP:

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Economics

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If production of an item results in negative external costs, then

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Economics