After graduating, you start work as a management consultant. You are paid $190 per hour. One...

 

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After graduating, you start work as a management consultant. You are paid $190 per hour. One morning before work, you decide to buy a new car. You know the exact model you want, and you know that in your area the price ranges from $19,800 to $20,200, with the average price you can expect to pay being $20,000. You can choose among hundreds of dealers, but you don't know which dealer will give you the best price. Time is literally money, since every hour you spend searching is an hour you don't get paid. Each visit to a dealer takes an hour. Your expected marginal benefit of another search is the difference between the current dealer's offer and the average price. The first dealer you go to asks $20,200 for the car. Should you accept the price or keep searching? (Keep in mind that each visit to a dealer takes an hour.) Accept the price. O Keep searching. Suppose you kept searching, and the next dealer you go to asks $20,040. Do you think you should accept this price or keep searching? O Accept the price. O Keep searching. Suppose you kept searching, and the next dealer you go to asks $20,090. You could return to the last dealer (who offered you a price of $20,040) but that would take another hour. What should you do? O Get a new price from yet another dealer. Accept the price of $20,090. O Return to the last dealer and pay $20,040. Which of the following best explains how it can be profitable for different dealers to offer different prices? Some dealers have lower costs than others. It isn't the higher-priced dealers will lose money in the long run. Some dealers have higher costs than others. Because different people have different opportunity costs of their time, even high-priced dealers can sometimes make sales. After graduating, you start work as a management consultant. You are paid $190 per hour. One morning before work, you decide to buy a new car. You know the exact model you want, and you know that in your area the price ranges from $19,800 to $20,200, with the average price you can expect to pay being $20,000. You can choose among hundreds of dealers, but you don't know which dealer will give you the best price. Time is literally money, since every hour you spend searching is an hour you don't get paid. Each visit to a dealer takes an hour. Your expected marginal benefit of another search is the difference between the current dealer's offer and the average price. The first dealer you go to asks $20,200 for the car. Should you accept the price or keep searching? (Keep in mind that each visit to a dealer takes an hour.) Accept the price. O Keep searching. Suppose you kept searching, and the next dealer you go to asks $20,040. Do you think you should accept this price or keep searching? O Accept the price. O Keep searching. Suppose you kept searching, and the next dealer you go to asks $20,090. You could return to the last dealer (who offered you a price of $20,040) but that would take another hour. What should you do? O Get a new price from yet another dealer. Accept the price of $20,090. O Return to the last dealer and pay $20,040. Which of the following best explains how it can be profitable for different dealers to offer different prices? Some dealers have lower costs than others. It isn't the higher-priced dealers will lose money in the long run. Some dealers have higher costs than others. Because different people have different opportunity costs of their time, even high-priced dealers can sometimes make sales.