Airporter Price Fixing? Hustle and Speedy provide transportation service from downtown to the city airport. Assume that low-price guarantees are illegal. The average cost per passenger is constant at $10. Here are the possible outcomes: (Enter your responses as integers.) Price-fixing (cartel). Each firm has 17 passengers at a price of $25. Corresponding profit for each firm will be $ Duopoly (no price-fixing). Each firm has 20 passengers at a price of $18. Corresponding profit for each firm will be $ Underpricing (one firm charges $18 and the other charges $25). The low-price firm has 39 passengers and the high-price firm has 2 passengers. Corresponding profit for the low-price firm will be $. and profit for the high-price firm will be Hustle chooses a price first, followed by Speedy. A game tree for the price-fixing game with corresponding profits is depicted to the right. Predict the outcome. O A. Hustle and Speedy will both choose a price of $25. O B. Hustle will choose a price of $18 and Speedy will choose a price of $25. OC. Hustle will choose a price of $25 and Speedy will choose a price of $18. O D. Hustle and Speedy will both choose a price of $18.

Airporter Price Fixing? Hustle and Speedy provide transportation service from downtown to the city airport. Assume that low-price guarantees are illegal. The average cost per passenger is constant at $10. Here are the possible outcomes: (Enter your responses as integers.) Price-fixing (cartel). Each firm has 17 passengers at a price of $25. Corresponding profit for each firm will be $ Duopoly (no price-fixing). Each firm has 20 passengers at a price of $18. Corresponding profit for each firm will be $ Underpricing (one firm charges $18 and the other charges $25). The low-price firm has 39 passengers and the high-price firm has 2 passengers. Corresponding profit for the low-price firm will be $. and profit for the high-price firm will be Hustle chooses a price first, followed by Speedy. A game tree for the price-fixing game with corresponding profits is depicted to the right. Predict the outcome. O A. Hustle and Speedy will both choose a price of $25. O B. Hustle will choose a price of $18 and Speedy will choose a price of $25. OC. Hustle will choose a price of $25 and Speedy will choose a price of $18. O D. Hustle and Speedy will both choose a price of $18.

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