6.3 Donald, a frugal graduate student, consumes only coffee (c) and buttered toast (bt). He buys these

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6.3 Donald, a frugal graduate student, consumes only coffee

(c) and buttered toast (bt). He buys these items at the university cafeteria and always uses two pats of butter for each piece of toast. Donald spends exactly half of his meager stipend on coffee and the other half on buttered toast.

a. In this problem, buttered toast can be treated as a composite commodity. What is its price in terms of the prices of butter

(pb) and toast (pt)?

b. Explain why @c/@pbt ΒΌ 0.

c. Is it also true here that @c/@pb and @c/@pt are equal to 0?

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Microeconomic Theory Basic Principles And Extension

ISBN: 9781111525538

11th Edition

Authors: Walter Nicholson, Christopher M. Snyder

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