6.4 Ms. Sarah Traveler does not own a car and travels only by bus, train, or plane....
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6.4 Ms. Sarah Traveler does not own a car and travels only by bus, train, or plane. Her utility function is given by utility B T P, where each letter stands for miles traveled by a specific mode. Suppose that the ratio of the price of train travel to that of bus travel (PT/PB) never changes.
a. How might one define a composite commodity for ground transportation?
b. Phrase Sarah’s optimization problem as one of choosing between ground (G) and air
(P) transportation.
c. What are Sarah’s demand functions for G and P?
d. Once Sarah decides how much to spend on G, how will she allocate those expenditures between B and T?
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Microeconomic Theory Basic Principles And Extensions
ISBN: 9780324270860
9th Edition
Authors: Walter Nicholson
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