Suppose that Jones and Smith have each decided to allocate $1000 per year to an entertainment budget in the form of hockey games or rock concerts. They both like hockey games and rock concerts and will choose to consume positive quantities of both goods. However, they differ substantially in their preferences for these two forms of entertainment. Jones prefers hockey games to rock concerts, while Smith prefers rock concerts to hockey games.
a. Draw a set of indifference curves for Jones and a second set for Smith.
b. Using the concept of marginal rate of substitution, explain why the two sets of curves are different from each other.