In order for a firm to engage in price discrimination, it must be select the correct answer below:
a) able to separate consumers into different groups based on demand elasticities
b) a price taker experiencing economies of scale in the relevant range of production
c) producing in the inelastic portion of its demand curve to raise its price and increase total revenue

a) Able to separate consumers into different groups based on demand elasticities

Explanation:

A firm is able to practice the price discrimination when following conditions are fulfilled:

- The firm should have market power and must be a price maker.

- The firm must be able to differentiate its customer base into different groups based on their demand elasticity.

- The firm is able to stop the cross selling between different groups of customers that are charged different prices.

Therefore, For firm to engage to price discrimination, it must be able to separate consumers into different groups based on their demand elasticities.

answer: a. the kind of population living in your neighbourhood.

the census explorer data tool by the us census bureau allows the user to zoom in on any neighbourhood within the united states and find the kind of people residing in that by race and age.  

the tool needs to needs to be used twice – once in order to find what type of people reside in a neighbourhood, and then to see the age groups of the people in the same neighbourhood.

answer; commerce clearing house;