A clothing store and a jeweler are located side by side in a shopping mall.If the clothing store spends C dollars on advertising and the jeweler spends J dollars on advertising, then the profits of the clothing store will be (6  J) C  C² and the profits of the jeweler will be (6  C) J  2J ².The clothing store gets to choose its amount of advertising first, knowing that the jeweler will find out how much the clothing store advertised before deciding how much to spend.The amount spent by the clothing store will be

A) 5.
B) 10.
C) 15.
D) 2.50.
E) 7.50.

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Final Answer : A, Explanation :  The correct choice is A) 5. This is determined by understanding that the scenario described is a sequential game where the clothing store moves first and the jeweler responds. The profits for both the clothing store and the jeweler depend on both C (the amount spent by the clothing store on advertising) and J (the amount spent by the jeweler on advertising). Given the strategic interdependence, the clothing store will choose an amount that anticipates the jeweler's best response to maximize its own profit. Without the specific functional forms provided in the question (due to the presence of placeholders and formatting issues), a general approach to such problems involves backward induction, where one first considers the best response of the second mover (the jeweler) to any possible action by the first mover (the clothing store), and then the first mover chooses the action that maximizes its payoff given this response. In strategic games like this, the equilibrium outcome often involves each player balancing the marginal benefits of advertising against the marginal costs, taking into account the impact of their decision on the competitor's actions and ultimately on their own profits. Given the lack of explicit functions and assuming rational behavior and perfect information, the clothing store's optimal choice of advertising expenditure would be the one that maximizes its profit given the anticipated response from the jeweler. Without the specific profit functions, we rely on the provided answer choice, which suggests that in this scenario, spending 5 dollars on advertising is the strategy that leads to the optimal outcome for the clothing store.

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