Price discrimination is:

a. when firms charge different prices to different customers based on the different costs of serving them.
b. when firms charge different prices to different customers based on their willingness to pay.
c. an illegal practice.
d. a practice that leads to the same outcome as would public ownership of a monopoly.


Ans: b. when firms charge different prices to different customers based on their willingness to pay.

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