You have a budget of $2000 for the year to cover your books and social outings. Books

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You have a budget of $2000 for the year to cover your books and social outings. Books cost (on average) $80 each and social outings cost (on average) $20 each. Let b denote the number of books purchased per year and s denote the number of social outings in a year.

(a) What is the equation of your budget constraint?

(b) Graph the budget constraint. (It does not matter which variable you put on which axis.)

(c) Find the vertical and horizontal intercepts, and give a financial interpretation for each.

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Applied Calculus

ISBN: 9781119275565

6th Edition

Authors: Deborah Hughes Hallett, Patti Frazer Lock, Andrew M. Gleason, Daniel E. Flath, Sheldon P. Gordon, David O. Lomen, David Lovelock, William G. McCallum, Brad G. Osgood, Andrew Pasquale

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