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tsand2

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Jason buys only music downloads and food with his weekly income. In response to a decrease in the price of downloads, he buys more downloads and less food. As a result, we would expect:
 a. the marginal utility of downloads to increase and the marginal utility of food to decrease.
  b. the marginal utility of both downloads and food to remain unchanged.
 c. the marginal utility of downloads to decrease and the marginal utility of food to increase.
  d. the marginal utility of food to become negative.

Question 2

If the resource market is perfectly competitive:
 a. the market demand for the resource is perfectly elastic.
  b. the market demand for the resource is perfectly inelastic.
  c. the suppliers can affect the input price by increasing or reducing their supply.
  d. the input price to each firm is constant.
  e. the supply of the resource is perfectly inelastic.


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Reply #1 on: Jun 30, 2018
Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

d


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