1. Would you expect marginal utility to rise or fall with additional consumption of a good? Why?

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1. Would you expect marginal utility to rise or fall with additional consumption of a good? Why? 

2. Shannon consumes dresses and lemonade. The price of a dresses is $10 and the price of a lemonade is $30. She is spending all her income on the two goods and her marginal rate of substitution of lemonade for dresses is 2. Is she at an optimum? Explain 

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