1. one government policy for dealing with a natural monopoly is to:
a) impose a price floor to eliminate the deadweight loss.
b) impose a price ceiling to reduce economic profit.
c) break it up into smaller firms.
d) impose fines on the monopolist.

Suppose a holiday inn hotel has annual fixed costs applicable to its rooms of $1.2 million for its 300-room hotel, average daily room rents of $50, and average variable costs of $10 for each room rented. it operates 365 days per year. the amount of operating income on rooms, assuming an occupancy* rate of 80% for the year, that will be generated for the entire year is *occupancy = % of rooms rented