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African Braids & Beauty is a natural monopoly in town, owned by Selina

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African Braids & Beauty is a natural monopoly in town, owned by Selina. Table 1 shows the demand schedule (the first two columns) and African Braids & Beauty's marginal cost schedule (the second and third columns). African Braids & Beauty has done a survey and discovered that it has four types of customers each hour: one woman who is willing to pay $16, one concession holder who is willing to pay $14, one student who is willing to pay $12, and one girl who is willing to pay $10.

a. If Selina is a single-price monopolist, what price will she charge and how many hair braidings per hour will she sell? (Hint: construct and compute the Total Revenue and Marginal Revenue columns)?

b. What is her total revenue?

c. What is the market consumer surplus?