Price and quantity that monopolist would choose

Price and quantity that monopolist would choose

Macroeconomics

We have learnt that in a perfectly competitive market, all cost savings from a technological advance are passed along to consumers in the form of lower prices (Recall the genetically modified example in lecture notes “Profit Maximization and competitive Supply in the Long Run”). Is the same true monopoly? Let’s see.

Now a more advanced technology is available and changes the total cost function of the monopolist to be: TC = 0.5Q²+10Q

Demand does not change.

Solve for the price and quantity that the monopolist would choose to maximize its profit under the more advanced technology. And also calculate the resulting profit.