QUESTION 17
- Nathalie has $140 and spends her money on books and pizza. The
price of pizza is $2/slice and the price of books is $10/book.
(Pizza and books are unrelated goods.) At these prices, Nathalie
chooses to purchase 6 books and 40 slices of pizza.
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- Draw and label Natalie’s budget constraint. Label the axes, and
mark both intercepts. (Suggestion put books on the x-axis)
- What is Nathalie’s opportunity cost of purchasing one
book?
- What is Nathalie’s opportunity cost of purchasing one slice of
pizza?
- At the point in which she is consuming: What does her
MRSbook,pizza Equal?
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- The on-line retailer YANTZE offers a service YANTZE PRIME,
which costs $24 and enables Nathalie to purchase as many books as
she would like for $6 each. Would Natalie choose to purchase this
new service?
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- If Natalie subscribes to YANTZE PRIME, she chooses to purchase
8 books and 34 slices of pizza. At this point, what does her
MUbook/MUpizza equal equal?
g. YANTZE offers a
newer subscription service, YANTZE double prime, which costs $48
and customers can purchase as many books as they would like for $3
each. Should Nathalie subscribe to YANTZE double prime?