Consider a state with a total water withdrawal of 4.5 bgd in 2000. This was distributed as follows: municipal use 1.0 bgd, industrial use 1.5 bgd, and steam electric cooling 2 bgd. Assume a 2000 population of 10 million and a projection of 12 million for 2015. It is estimated that an additional 3000 MW of electric-generating capacity will be required by 2015 and that the cooling water requirements will be 50 gal/kWh. An industrial expansion of 10% is also expected. Estimate the total water that will be withdrawn in 2015 for each sector and for all sectors combined. State your assumptions. Assume a plant capacity factor of 0.6 (water use will relate to ).

German brothels recently began offering a monthly subscription service for multiple purchasers. if you thought that the brothels' encouragement of prostitution was immoral to begin with, would you consider this pricing plan to be even more immoral? suppose a particular patron at a german brothel has the following willingness-to-pay schedule for services at the brothel, per session. session willingness to pay 1st $84 2nd $72 3rd $60 4th $48 5th $36 6th $24 suppose this consumer would not demand any more sessions, even for free. also assume that the marginal cost to the brothel, per session, is constant at $12. at a price of $78.00 per session, the number of sessions demanded by this consumer would be . at this price and quantity, consumer surplus is $ and producer surplus is $ . suppose the brothel has devised a new pricing scheme for consumers who demand more than 1 session. this pricing scheme is a subscription service, whereby consumers can pay a flat fee of $259.20 and can have up to 6 sessions total. using this subscription pricing model, this consumer would demand sessions. under this scenario, consumer surplus is $ and producer surplus is $ . (hint: for consumer surplus, consider how much total value the consumer places on all sessions, versus the total price paid.)