Answer: b. second degree price discrimination
Since the school pays a different rate for the first million kilowatts consumed and a lower rate for any consumption over a million kilowatts, second degree price discrimination is at play.
When corporations or businesses sell the same product to different customers at different prices, with a view to maximize profits, price discrimination is said to occur.
There are three types of price discrimination -
First Degree price discrimination
Second Degree price discrimination
Third Degree price discrimination
First degree price discrimination occurs when the supplier sells the goods at a price the customer is willing to pay for the good.
Second Degree price discrimination occurs when the supplier establishes slabs for different quantities of goods sold. In this case, the supplier will offer a higher per unit cost for lower quantity of goods, and a lower per unit cost for a higher quantity of goods
Third degree price discrimination occurs when a firm is able to clearly divide its markets into segments. The products are positioned in each segment in a different manner.
Answer:
preferred habitat
Explanation:
According to the preferred habitat theory, if the expected returns from investment of a particular investment maturity is large enough, investors would shift from their preferred maturities.
In this question, there is a shift from the preferred maturity (short-term securities) to a long-term securities when interest rate changes
The pure expectations theory assumes that bonds of any maturity are perfect substitutes for each other. For example, if an investor buys a 10 year bond and holds it for 1 year, the return is the same as buying a 1 year bond. The theory also assumes that risk premium does not exist and a security only earns its risk free rate
Liquidity premium theory states that risk premium increases with the maturity of a bond. The theory predicts that the yield curve is upward sloping due to liquidity premium
According to the segmented market theory, each bond maturity segment can be thought of as a segment market in which yield are a function of the demand and supply for funds in that maturity.
Answer: Not change the quantity demanded.
Explanation: In a market demand is said to be perfectly inelastic, if the demand for commodities is not affected by price changes.
Therefore since the demand for natural gas in perfectly inelastic, the demand will not change regardless of the change in price of the gas.
1. The importance of anti-virus software it to help prevent a virus (such as malware) from infecting the computer/electronic device and preventing the possibility of a security breach within the companies system. 2. Susan could have easily prevented this scenario from happening by paying attention to why she was supposed to, following the rules, and staying away from suspicious websites. 3. The ethical issues this scenario illustrates is the lack of attention employees have in the work place. 4. The company could lose valuable and confidential data within their program by hackers. 5. Companies could set up mandated reminders to their employees to keep track of their anti-virus software and make sure it’s up to date.
The journal entry for the inventory purchased will be to record the sale and another one to record the cost of the sale.
<h3>What is a journal entry?</h3>
It should be noted that a journal entry is used to record the financial activities of a company.
In this case, the journal entry for the purchase of inventory on account using the perpetual inventory system is to record the sale and another one to record the cost of the good.
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