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AgK rents out computing services to agricultural producers. The charge a fixed rental payment for the right to unlimited computing at a rate of P USD per minute. There are two types of potential users: 100 farmers and 100 ranchers. Each farmer demand is given by Qf = 20 - Pf, and each rancher's demand is given by Qr = 25 - Pr, where Q is in 1000 minutes per month and P is in USD per minutes. The marginal cost is 5 USD per minute.
Suppose that you could separate farmers and ranchers. For ranchers, the optimal rental fee is
A) 5 |
B) 200,000 |
C) 500 |
D) 0 |
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