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Question
Read the following statements carefully and choose the correct alternative:
Assertion (A): Price discrimination is possible under monopoly.
Reason (R): A monopolist can charge different prices in different markets because different sets of consumers - rich and poor - have different price elasticity of demand for the monopolist's product.
Options
Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation of Assertion (A).
Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is not the correct explanation of Assertion (A).
Assertion (A) is true but Reason (R) is false.
Assertion (A) is false but Reason (R) is true.
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Solution
Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation of Assertion (A).
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