Consider an exchange economy with two agents, A and B, and two goods, 1 and 2. Agent A will only consume the goods in fixed proportions and has utility function U4 (x†, x²) min (2xf, x). Agent B, on the other hand, has a utility function given by UB (xf , x5 4.x + 3x5. Assume that the total amount of good 1 available is ēj = 6 and the total amount of good 2 available is ēz = 10. Suppose Agent A starts with an endowment of (et, es) = (5,2). What would the final equilibrium allocation be?
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