ECON 1B03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Marginal Utility, Budget Constraint, Indifference Curve

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Chapter 21 the theory of consumer choice. Budget constraint the limit on the consumption bundles that a consumer can afford. Slope of budget constraint measures the rate at which the consume can trade one good for the other. Marginal rate of substitution (mrs) the rate at which a consumer is willing to trade one good for another. 4 properties of indifference curve: high indifference curves are preferred to lower ones - people prefer more than less. Indifference curves are downward sloping one item increase and the other one increase. Indifference curves do not cross contradicts the assumption that consumers prefer more of both goods. Indifference curves are bowed inward reflects the consumer"s greater willingness to give up a good that he already has in large quantity. When goods are easy to substitute for each other, the indifference curves are less bowed. When goods are hard to substitute, the indifference curves are very bowed.

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Microeconomics Four-part multiple choice question with an explanation. Give a short explanation for each part regarding how your answer is computed or why your answer is correct.

Part A.

Para mi volunteers at a homeless shelter. It takes a lot of her time, and thus she sometimes takes off time from her job to do the volunteer work. Parami's behavior can be explained by:

	overconfidence.
	a framing bias.
	altruism.
	overvaluing the present relative to the future.

Part B.

Indifference curves cannot be concave to the origin because:

	consumers generally will prefer to have more of a good than less of a good.
	the satisfaction consumers get from consuming additional units of a good decline.
	the substitution effect holds across indifference curves.
	consumers must give up more of one good to obtain more of another good.

Part C.

Marginal utility analysis and indifference curve analysis are both used to:

	compute comparative advantage.
	derive supply curves.
	derive demand curves.
	analyze the total revenue.

Part D.

Indifference curves:

	represent a set of product bundles to which a consumer is indifferent.
	slope up and to the right.
	show the difference between the marginal utilities of two different goods.
	are concave to the origin.

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budget line

marginal utility

complete property of preferences

market demand

consumption bundle

substitution effect

Giffen good

total effect

income effect

transitive property of preferences

indifference curves

utility

the marginal rate of substitution

utility function

1.	_____	The satisfaction or benefit that consumers receive from consuming goods or services.
2.	________________ _	A particular combination of specific quantities of goods or services
3.	________________ _	Consumers can rank all conceivable bundles of goods or services
4.	_____	If A is preferred to B, and B is preferred to C, then A is always preferred to C.
5.	_____	Equation showing a consumerâs perception of the total utility forthcoming from consuming each bundle of goods and services.
6.	_____	A set of consumption bundles each and every one of which provides a consumer with exactly the same level of total utility.
7.	_____	The number of units of Y that must be given up for total utility to remain the same when one more unit of X is consumed.
8.	_____	The addition to total utility attributable to consuming one more unit of a good, holding the consumption of all other goods constant.
9.	_____	The line showing all bundles of goods that can be purchased at given prices if the entire income is spent.
10.	_____	The change in the consumption of a good that would result if the consumer remained on the original indifference curve after the price of the good changes.
11.	_____	The change in consumption of goods results strictly from the change in purchasing power after the price of a good changes.
12.	________________ _	The sum of the substitution and income effects.
13.	_____	A good for which quantity demanded varies directly with price, causing an upward sloping demand curve.
14.	_____	A list of prices and the corresponding quantity consumers are willing and able to purchase at each price.

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11) Which one of the following is true at the best affordable choice of a consumer? A) Marginal rate of substitution is less than the relative price of the good measured on the r-axis. B) Other consumption points along the consumer's budget line lie on higher indifference curves. C) Marginal rate of substitution exceeds the slope of the budget line. D) The consumption choice is outside the budget line. E) All income is spent.

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