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dejastew

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on: Jun 29, 2018
Bianca consumes pizza. Marginal utility theory predicts that when the price of pizza increases
 
  A) Bianca's total utility from pizza will increase.
  B) Bianca will buy less pizza.
  C) Bianca's marginal utility from pizza will increase.
  D) Bianca's demand curve for pizza will shift leftward.

Question 2

Teddy buys only chocolate chip cookies and hot chocolate and spends all of his income on the two items. Suppose the price of a cookie rises. According to marginal utility theory, Teddy will buy
 
  A) more cookies and less hot chocolate, which decreases his marginal utility from cookies and increases his marginal utility from hot chocolate.
  B) more cookies and less hot chocolate, which increases his marginal utility from cookies and decrease his marginal utility from hot chocolate.
  C) fewer cookies and more hot chocolate, which decreases his marginal utility from cookies and increases his marginal utility from hot chocolate.
  D) fewer cookies and more hot chocolate, which increases his marginal utility from cookies and decreases his marginal utility from hot chocolate.


TINA

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Reply #1 on: Jun 29, 2018
Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

D


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