Author Question: Fernando allocates his lunch money between pizza and Coke. A Coke has a price of 1 and a slice of ... (Read 86 times)

nelaaney · **on:** Jul 1, 2018

Fernando allocates his lunch money between pizza and Coke. A Coke has a price of 1 and a slice of pizza has a price of 1.50 . The marginal utility of the last slice of pizza Fernando ate today was 30, and the marginal utility of his last Coke was 25 . Fernando spent all of his lunch money. From this information we can conclude that
a. Fernando allocated his money in a way that maximized his total utility
b. Fernando's total utility would have been greater if he had purchased more Coke and less pizza
c. Fernando's total utility would have been greater if he had purchased more pizza and less Coke
d. Fernando could have increased his total utility by purchasing more Coke but the same quantity of pizza
e. Fernando could have increased his total utility by purchasing more pizza but the same quantity of Coke

Question 2

Your marginal utility of a third waffle is 10 and your marginal utility of a second piece of ham is 30 . If you eat the third waffle, which of the following must be true?
a. You are irrational.
b. You prefer waffles.
c. The price of a waffle is less than one third the price of a piece of ham.
d. The price of a waffle is more than the price of a piece of ham.
e. The price of a waffle is three times the price of a piece of ham.