6.3 Ms. Sarah Traveler does not own a car and travels only by bus, train, or plane....
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6.3 Ms. Sarah Traveler does not own a car and travels only by bus, train, or plane. Her utility function is given by utility
b. 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 (P./P) 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: 9780324585377
10th Edition
Authors: Walter Nicholson, Christopher M. Snyder
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