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.Management Sciences
Category: Consumer Theory vs. Real Consumers
indifference curves for perfect substitutes are ?
A. right angles
B. bowed outward
C. straight lines
D. nonexistent
E. bowed inward
The limit on the consumption bundles that a consumer can afford is known as ?
A. an indifference curve
B. the budget constraint
C. the marginal rate of substitution
D. the consumption limits
Refer to Exhibit 4. Suppose that the consumer must choose between buying socks and belts Also suppose that the consumer’s income is €100 If the price of a belt is €10 and the price of a pair of socks is €5, the consumer will choose to buy the commodity bundle represented b point ?
A. Z
B. X
C. Y
D. the optimal point cannot be determined from this graph
A change in the relative prices of which of the following pair of goods would likely cause the smallest substitution effect ?
A. right shoes and left shoes
B. petrol from BP and petrol from shell
C. kit-Kat chocolate snacks and Twix chocolate snacks
D. coke and Pepsi
The slope at any point on an indifference curve is known as ?
A. the marginal rate of substitution
B. the marginal rate of trade-off.
C. the trade-off rates
D. the marginal rate of indifference
Which of the following is not true regarding the outcome of a consumer’s optimization process ?
A. The marginal utility per dollar spent on each good is the same
B. The marginal rate of substitution between goods is equal to the ratio of the prices between goods
C. The consumer’s indifference curve is tangent to his budget constraint
D. The consumer has reached his highest indifference curve subject to his budget constraint
E. The consumer is indifferent between any two points on his budget constraint
If an increase in a consumer’s income causes the consumer to increase his quantity demand of a good, then the good is ?
A. a complementary good
B. an inferior good
C. a normal good
D. a substitute good
If income where to double and prices were to to double the budget line would ?
A. stay the same
B. rotate inward
C. shift outward in a parallel fashion
D. rotates outward
E. shift inward in parallel fashion
The change in consumption that results when a price change moves the consumer along a given indifference curve is known as the ?
A. inferior effect
B. normal effect
C. substitution effect
D. complementary effect
E. income effect
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