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Strategic Pricing within the Feasible Set
A company that produces a unique smartphone has a well-defined, downward-sloping demand curve. The company is currently selling 50,000 phones per month at the highest possible price consumers are willing to pay for that quantity. A marketing consultant suggests they should instead sell the same 50,000 phones but at a price $20 lower. Both pricing strategies are within the company's feasible set. Explain where each of these two price-quantity combinations would lie in relation to the demand curve and provide one plausible strategic reason why the company might consider the consultant's suggestion.
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