Vera is an impoverished graduate student who has only $100 a month to spend on food. She
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a. If peanut butter costs $4 per pound and carrots cost $2 per pound, how much can she eat during the month?
b. Suppose peanut butter costs rise to $5 because of peanut subsidies introduced by a politically corrupt government. By how much will Vera have to reduce her food purchases?
c. How much in food stamp aid would the government have to give Vera to compensate for the effects of the peanut subsidy?
d. Explain why Vera’s preferences are of a very special type here. How would you graph them?
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Intermediate Microeconomics and Its Application
ISBN: 978-0324599107
11th edition
Authors: walter nicholson, christopher snyder
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