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Sufayan.ah

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Blutarsky is throwing a party at his Fraternity and is trying to choose what booze to buy. A bottle of vodka has four times the alcohol as a six-pack of beer.
 
  If Blutarsky only cares about the total amount of alcohol in his basket, what is his marginal rate of substitution of bottles of vodka for six-packs of beer? Devise a utility function to represent these preferences.

Question 2

Which of the following is most likely the most beneficial form of monopoly advantage?
 
  A) better production methods
  B) input hoarding
  C) decreasing returns to scale
  D) government protection



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Answer to Question 1

Blutarsky is willing to trade 1 bottle of vodka for 4 six packs of beer making his MRS = 4. A utility function for these preferences is U(V,B) = aV + bB, where a > 0, b > 0 and a/b = 4.

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Sufayan.ah

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Reply 2 on: Jul 1, 2018
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review


Missbam101

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

 

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