As an economics student your budget for meals at the university is Rs 12,000 and you have two options during the course of you studies:   (i)             Eating at the university cafeteria for Rs 40 per meal (ii)            Eating at the dining hall for Rs 10 per meal.   A)    Draw the budget constraint showing the trade-off between cafeteria and dinning hall meals, with cafeteria meals on x-axis and dining hall meals on y-axis. Assume you spend equal amounts on both goods, draw an indifference curve showing the optimum choice. Label the optimum as point A.

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As an economics student your budget for meals at the university is Rs 12,000 and you have two options during the course of you studies:
 
(i)             Eating at the university cafeteria for Rs 40 per meal
(ii)            Eating at the dining hall for Rs 10 per meal.
 
A)    Draw the budget constraint showing the trade-off between cafeteria and dinning hall meals, with cafeteria meals on x-axis and dining hall meals on y-axis. Assume you spend equal amounts on both goods, draw an indifference curve showing the optimum choice. Label the optimum as point A.                                                              (2 Mark)

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