Foundations of Economics, Student Value Edition Plus MyLab Economics with eText -- Access Card Package (8th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134641843
Author: Robin Bade, Michael Parkin
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Chapter 13, Problem 1MCQ
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Choose the correct answer out of the following options: The consumer's consumption possibilities depends on all of the following except ____
- The
price of the goods that consumer wants to buy - The consumer's budget
- The quantities of the goods that the consumer can afford
- The consumer's preferences
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K A budget line is a line that describes limits to consumption possibilities and that depends on a consumer's OA. demand; prices B. demand; supply C. budget; costs D. budget; prices and of goods and services.
1. Suppose you earn $1500 per week and you consume only two types of goods per week- sandwiches and orange juice, which you purchase at a mini mart. Each sandwich cost $150 and an orange juice is $75 per cup.
a) Construct a table showing the alternative combinations of the two products that are available.
b)Plot the data in your table on a budget line. What is the slope of the budget line? What is the opportunity cost of one more cup of orange juice? And what is opportunity cost of one more sandwich? Do these opportunity cost rise, fall or remain constant as you purchase an additional unit of the product?
c)Suppose the price of a cup of orange juice increased to $150. Construct a new table showing alternative combinations of sandwiches and orange juice. Construct the new budget line.
Jeremy has a monthly income of $60. He spends his money making telephone calls (good ?, measured in minutes) at a price of ?? and on other composite good ?, whose price has been normalized to one, meaning ?? = $1. His mobile phone company offers him two plans: plan A, in which he pays no monthly fee and makes calls for $0.50 per minute, or plan B, in which he pays a $20 monthly fee and benefits from cheaper phone calls at $0.20 per minute.(a) Depict Jeremy’s budget constraint under each of the two plans, with the number of phone calls (good ?) in the horizontal axis and the composite good (good ?) in the vertical axis. (b) If Jeremy mentioned that plan A is better for him, what is the set of consumption bundles he may purchase if his behavior is consistent with WARP?
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Foundations of Economics, Student Value Edition Plus MyLab Economics with eText -- Access Card Package (8th Edition)
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