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- please only do: if you can teach explain each What does it mean?there is no quantity of wine that he can convert to grapes. Thus, for example, if he purchases 4 units of grapes and 3 units of wine, he could consume any bundle (4-s, 3+ s) why the s ? What does mean? with s € [0,4] how to know what to look at: If p₁ < p2 or p1 ≥ p2, why these? Please how to solve: x(p, w) = (2w/3p1, w/3p1) (2w/3p1, w/3p2)True or false with reasoning 1)_______When an extra glass of wine is consumed, the total utility gained from the consumption changes by an amount of the marginal utility of all goods consumed. 2)_______Suppose that you consume two goods A and B, and that MUA/PA = 2 and MUB/PB = 4. With a given income and prices, the consumer will purchase more of good A and less of good B. 3)_______If you consume two goods, X and Y, and MUX > MUY, then you are willing to pay more for good X than for good Y.2. Tom spends all his $100 weekly income on two goods, apples and bananas. His utility function is given by U (A, B) = AB, where A and B stand for the quantity of apples and bananas consumed by Tom. If PA = $4 and PB= $10, how many apples and bananas will he consume? Make sure you write out the utility maximization problem explicitly, including the decision variable(s). What if his utility function is given by U (A, B) = A0.5B 0.5?
- Ronald is an Economics students who likes to spend his leisure time of sixty hours a month doingone of two activities: watching movies at Dendy Cinemas Newtown (x), and indoor-climbing(y). A trip to the movies takes 3 hours, and each visit to the climbing gym lasts 5 hours.Further, suppose that Ronald has a fixed monthly monetary budget to spend on leisure activities. He currently exhausts this entire budget by watching two movies and visiting the climbinggym fifteen times. With this monthly budget, he would also have been able to afford exactlyseven movies and six visits to the climbing gym.Assume that both goods are perfectly divisible.(b) Show, using algebra, that Ronald’s two budget lines intersect at the bundle (x, y) =(5.5, 8.7).Suppose that Omar’s marginal utility for cups of coffee is constant at 1.5 utils per cup no matter how many cups he drinks. On the other hand, his marginal utility per doughnut is 10 for the first doughnut he eats, 9 for the second he eats, 8 for the third he eats, and so on (that is, declining by 1 util per additional doughnut). In addition, suppose that coffee costs $1 per cup, doughnuts cost $1 each, and Omar has a budget that he can spend only on doughnuts, coffee, or both. How big would that budget have to be before he would spend a dollar buying a first cup of coffee?1-Which of the following provides a higher marginal utility, a diamond or a pint of water? A dimond A point of water They prodive about the same marginal utility 2- Unit of Apples MU of Apple Unit of Oranges MU of Oranges 1st 4 1st 9 2nd 3 2nd 3 3rd 1 3rd 2 4th 0 4th 0 Suppose the price of an apple is $2, and the price of an orange if $3. You have a budget $10 for these two items. What would you put in your basket first? an Apple an Orange You are indifferent between putting an apple or an orange in your basket. We do not have enough information to answer this question.