Does a dollar given to a rich person raise the rich person's total utility more than a dollar given to a poor person raises the poor person's total utility?

Q: How is the ordinal utility concept different from the cardinal utility concept

A: The key difference between Cardinal and Ordinal Utility lies within the undeniable fact that…

Q: A rational consumer would want as much as many goods as possible to maximize utility derived from…

A: Utility refers to the satisfaction or enjoyment a consumer can get from a service or good.

Q: Ambrose's utility function is = 4x1 ^1/2 + x2. If the price of nuts (good 1) is $1, the price of…

A: A consumer will maximise its utility at a point where marginal rate of substitution is equal to the…

Q: How should I spend my money in order to maximize my utility?”

A: Utility refers to the the satisfaction derived by consumption of a good/commodity or a service.

Q: Explain one difference and one example between the Cardinal utility and ordinal utility!

A: Cardinal utility is a Marshallian concept used along with an ordinal utility to gauge the…

Q: Which of the following statements is correct? ___ Marginal utility is the sum of total utility. ____…

A: Total utility is the total satisfaction derived from consuming a good.

Q: Suppose that Turkish consumers pay twice as much for oranges as they pay for apples, whereas…

A: Given the tastes of the consumer, a rational consumer seeks to maximize the utility or satisfaction…

Q: Emily is considering a move from Galway to London. She only consumes food and clothing and the table…

A: Rational selection theory states that people place confidence in rational calculations to form…

Q: The law of diminishing marginal utility says that.... ........... as a person consumes more and more…

A: The consumers, or the individuals, or the households purchase goods, and services in order to…

Q: Praxilla, who lived in ancient Greece, derives utility from reading poems and from eating cucumbers.…

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Q: How does utility theory differentiate a “need” from a “want”?

A: Utility alludes to the total fulfillment got from the utilization of a thing or service. As the…

Q: Praxilla, who lived in ancient Greece, derives utility from reading poems and from eating cucumbers.…

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Q: What is utility? the satisfaction a person gets from the consumption of a good a measure of…

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Q: How does a rational consumer, with given income and tastes, allocate his income among available…

A: (Q) How does a rational consumer, with given income and tastes, allocate his income among available…

Q: Total utility is the addition of all the marginal utilities that an individual derives from…

A: The want satisfying power of a commodity is called utility. As per Marshallian theory of consumer,…

Q: Evaluate your marginal and total utility of consuming at an all you can eat pizza buffet. Explain…

A: Meaning of Utility Function: The term utility function refers to the total utility for a consumer…

Q: Complete each of the following sentences: Your tastes determine the _____________ you derive from…

A: Whenever consumers consume the good, they derive utility from consuming it which determined by the…

Q: Is it reasonable to assume that people seek to equate the marginal utility/price ratios of the goods…

A: Introduction: The complete satisfaction gained from consuming an item or service is known as…

Q: The law of explains why people and societies rarely make all-or-nothing choices. diminishing…

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Q: Sketch Praxilla’s budget set between poems and cucumbers, placing poems on the vertical axis and…

A: Praxilla being a rational consumer will allocate her budget (18 bronze coins) among two commodities…

Q: Given a utility function that represents preference over bundles which consists of two goods. Can we…

A: To analyze consumer behavior and their satisfaction from the consumption of goods and services,…

Q: A consumer with a fixed income will maximize utility when each good is purchased in amounts such…

A: Marginal utility refers to the additional happiness a consumer gets when he/she consumes an…

Q: If a rational consumer is in equilibrium, then: a. the marginal utility obtained from one product is…

A: A rational consumer is in equilibrium when he maximizes his utility subject to his budget.

Q: Consumer value can be determined by how consumer utility compares between different items. Comment

A: In a market, utility refers to the economic concept to explains the value of a good for a specific…

Q: Why is “consumer's utility is impossible to measure and quantify? Explain your answer.

A: In economics, utility refers to the entire pleasure derived from the consumption of an item or…

Q: Two students, Nick and Sofia, are discussing normal and inferior goods. Nick says that if Frodo buys…

A: According to the question, Nick and Sofia, two students, are debating the differences between…

Q: If a good is free, when will a consumer stop wanting to buy the good? Once the total utility equals…

A: ''Since multiple questions are asked, we are supposed to answer one question''   Marginal Utility is…

Q: Explain the consumer equilibrium condition according to utility theory. Include in  your answer the…

A: Equilibrium of a Single Good: When a consumer buys a commodity, he stops when the price and utility…

Q: he utility theory that describes how much of one market basket is preferred to another is called the…

A: There are two types of approaches in the concept of utility that is qualitative and quantitative.…

Q: Is it possible for total utility to increase while marginal utility diminishes

A: Step-1 Marginal utility(MU) is the change in the total utility(TU) due to small change in the…

Q: Given the data in the above table, if income is $16, and the price is $1 for a bottle of water and…

A: Total utility is the total satisfaction that a consumer derives when he consumes goods and services.…

Q: Praxilla, who lived in ancient Greece, derives utility from reading poems and from eating cucumbers.…

A: It is given in the above question Paxilla derives utility by consuming two goods that are Poems and…

Q: impacts of marginal utility. Imagine that you are a seller of phones: How can you increase the…

A: Marginal Utility: When an individual consumes something then by consuming the extra amount of goods…

Q: Explain the principles, concepts, and theories underlying individual consumers’ behaviour with…

A: Utility is the want satisficing power of a commodity, it differs from person to person and changes…

Q: Shannon is allergic to chocolate and refuse to eat it making the statement that the marginal utility…

A: Marginal utility is the extra utility received from consuming one additional unit of the good per…

Q: How can else  increase marginal utility and therefore the consumer demand curve?

A: marginal utility is the additional fulfillment a purchaser gets from having another unit of a decent…

Q: goods that they purchase, if they have never heard of 'u marginal utility cannot be measured in any…

A: In economics, utility is defined as the pleasure or benefit gained from consuming a product; thus,…

Q: example of Diminishing Marginal Utility and briefly explain why?

A: Diminishing marginal utility means when a consumer consumes a good then marginal utility derived…

Q: Suppose the following table reflects the total satisfaction (utility) derived from eating pizza:…

A: Law of DMU states that when a person consumes a commodity, the satisfaction he/she derives from the…

Q: Suppose a person allocates a given budget between food and clothing. If food is an inferior good can…

A: Demand for Inferior goods decline with an increase in income.

Q: Given Utility function U=20Q-2Q^2, what quantity of good gives highest utility for the consumer?…

A: The utility (U) for a consumer is the amount of satisfaction procured or attained by an individual…

Q: Which of the following statements is correct? Multiple Choice   Marginal utility is the…

A: The measure that in turn depicts the total satisfaction that is being received from the consumption…

Q: From the consumer’s viewpoint, which of the following is to get the most total satisfaction or value…

A: Customer satisfaction: The degree to which customers are satisfied with items is known as customer…