5. Suppose that a consumers utility function for two goods (X and Y) is U(X,Y) = 10X...

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5. Suppose that a consumer’s utility function for two goods (X and Y) is U(X,Y) = 10X 0.5 + 2Y The price of good X is $5 per unit and the price of good Y is $10 per unit. Suppose that the consumer must have 80 units of utility and wants to achieve this level of utility with the lowest possible expenditure.

a. Write a statement of the constrained optimization problem.

b. Use a Lagrangian to solve the expenditureminimization problem.

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Microeconomics

ISBN: 9780716759751

1st Edition

Authors: Austan Goolsbee, Steven Levitt, Chad Syverson

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