Larkspur Inc. wishes to lease machinery to Thiensville Company. Thiensville wants the machinery for 4 years, although it has a useful life of 10 years. The machinery has a fair value at the commencement of the lease of $46,000, and Larkspur expects the machinery to have a residual value at the end of the lease term of $28,000. However, Thiensville does not guarantee any part of the residual value. Thiensville does expect that the residual value will be $44,000 instead of $28,000. What would be the amount of the annual rental payments Larkspur demands of Thiensville, assuming each payment will be made at the end of each year and Larkspur wishes to earn a rate of return on the lease of 8%

Suppose there are three types of consumers who attend concerts at your university’s performing arts center: students, staff, and faculty. each of these groups has a different willingness to pay for tickets; within each group, willingness to pay is identical. there is a fixed cost of $1,000 to put on a concert, but there are essentially no variable costs. for each concert: i. there are 140 students willing to pay $20. (ii) there are 200 staff members willing to pay $35. (iii) there are 100 faculty members willing to pay $50. a) if the performing arts center can charge only one price, what price should it charge? what are profits at this price? b) if the performing arts center can price discriminate and charge two prices, one for students and another for faculty/staff, what are its profits? c) if the performing arts center can perfectly price discriminate and charge students, staff, and faculty three separate prices, what are its profits?