Exam 6: Household Behavior and Consumer Choice
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Darius has $1,200 a month to spend on clothing and food. The price of clothing is $60 and the price of food is $10. What is the equation for Darius's budget constraint, assuming he spends his entire budget?
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Refer to the information provided in Figure 6.13 below to answer the question(s) that follow.
Figure 6.13
-Refer to Figure 6.13. Assume Megan has two products available, pizza and hamburgers. Megan is always willing to trade an equal number of pizzas for hamburgers regardless of how many pizzas and hamburgers she has. The curve in Panel ________ represents her indifference curve.
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Refer to the information provided in Table 6.4 below to answer the question(s) that follow.
Table 6.4
Number of Donuts per Day Total Utility Marginal Utility 1 80 2 150 3 200 4 230 5 10 Number of Burritos per Day Total Utility Marginal Utility 1 60 2 108 3 144 4 168 5 12
-Refer to Table 6.4. Diminishing marginal utility sets in after the ________ donut per day.
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Related to the Economics in Practice on p. 129: Suppose Store ABC runs an ad claiming to have "low prices everyday." They even demonstrate that the total expenditure for a basket of groceries is less at their store than at any of their competitors. Which of the following statements is not true?
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Figure 6.2
-Refer to Figure 6.2. Assume Mr. Lingle is on budget constraint AC. If the price of a gardenburger is $9, Mr. Lingle's monthly income is
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Assuming a perfectly competitive market implies that households do not need knowledge of qualities and prices of everything available in the market.
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Assume Sally is initially in equilibrium and that X and Y are normal goods for her. Then the price of X rises. For Sally to move to a new equilibrium point, her consumption of
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Refer to the information provided in Figure 6.14 below to answer the question(s) that follow.
Figure 6.14
-Refer to Figure 6.14. If the price of an ice cream cone is $2, Jason's income is
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Figure 6.2
-Refer to Figure 6.2. Assume Mr. Lingle is on budget constraint AC. If the price of a beer is $4, Mr. Lingleʹs monthly income is
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Refer to the information provided in Table 6.3 below to answer the question(s) that follow.
Table 6.3
Dozens of Oysters per Day Total Utility Marginal Utility 1 60 2 104 3 134 4 152 8 5 Number of Beersper Day Total Utility Marginal Utility 1 40 2 70 3 94 4 114 5 14
-Refer to Table 6.3. The marginal utility of the third dozen oysters per day is
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The marginal utility of the first smoothie that Jimmy drinks in the morning is worth $3.00. The marginal utility of the 4th smoothie he drinks is positive while the marginal utility of the 5th smoothie he drinks in the morning is worth $0. This implies that at a price of $0, Jimmy would drink
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