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9. If you were a marketing a product like soft drinks which are available from many different
sellers at different prices, how would you recommend setting a price based on what you
know of our model of supply & demand? Please be sure to explain your answer.
10. Please think about your experiences as a consumer or what you have seen when looking at
different prices from different sellers. Please describe why people may choose to buy in the
situations below:
A. A price is a higher, like at a baseball or football game or at an event or concert. Why do
some people choose to pay prices they know are higher than if they visited other sellers?
B. A refinery has to make repairs on their plant that produces gasoline for Wisconsin. While
other refineries can ship gas into our market, the costs are higher. What will motorists see at
the gas price as supplies become limited or the cost of transporting gas in Wisconsin goes
up? Please be sure to explain your answer.
C. Based on what you now know about normal products, supply and demand, and
equilibrium price, please explain why you believe the is an Citizen Utility Board that works
with WE Energy to monitor and determine reasonable prices for electricity and natural gas.
Please be sure to explain your answer (NOTE: WE Energy is the only choice we have to use
natural gas for cooking and heating. They are the sole provider of electricity in this area.
Economists call this a “natural monopoly”)