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Question 5 (14 points) [14 marks] For the following question, . You get 2 marks for choosing the correct answer. . You get up to

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Question 5 (14 points) [14 marks] For the following question, . You get 2 marks for choosing the correct answer. . You get up to 14 marks for the detailed solution. . Show your result on an Edgeworth box to get a full mark (In your Edgeworth box, you should have good 1 on the horizontal axis. The quantities of person 1 is measured from the lower left corner and the quantities of person 2 is measured from the upper right corner. Mark the initial endowment and label it with E. Draw the indifference curves that passes through the endowment point for both agents. Mark the market equilibrium and label it with X. Don't forget to label all axis.) An economy has 2 people. Agent 1 has utility function Uj(x, y) = x + y and Agent 2 has utility function U2 (x, y) = min (2x, y) . Each agent has an initial allocation of 60 units of x and 60 units of y. At the equilibrium, Agent 1 consumes (a) 26.66 units of good y. (d) 40 units of good y. (b) 53.33 units of good y. (c) 80 units of good y. (e) None of the above

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