Mr Cog Has 18 Hours Per Day to Divide Between

Mr. Cog has 18 hours per day to divide between labor and leisure. His utility function is U(C, R) = CR, where C is dollars per year spent on consumption and R is hours of leisure. If he has 19 dollars of nonlabor income per day and gets a wage rate of 15 dollars per hour when he works, his budget equation, expressing combinations of consumption and leisure that he can afford to have, can be written as

A) 15R + C = 19.
B) 15R + C = 289.
C) R += 379.
D) C = 289 + 15R.
E) C = 346 + 15R.

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