/Muhammad’s perceives canned tuna (Y) as an inferior good and fresh tuna (X) as a normal good. If his income increases by 100%, and his income elasticity of both types of tuna is 1. Show the effect of this increase in income on the change in his optimal choice of canned and fresh tuna, highlighting his income-consumption curve. Clearly label your graph. Reflect the proportional changes in your graph 2/ Assume a piece of jewelry and 2 consecutive drops in its price. Also consider Alia’s demand to be relative elastic in the price range from ?1 to ?2, and that she perceives jewelry as a Giffen good in the price range from ?2 to ?3. Draw her price-consumption curve with well-behaved preferences. Clearly label your graph.

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1/Muhammad’s perceives canned tuna (Y) as an inferior good and fresh tuna (X) as a normal good. If his income increases by 100%, and his income elasticity of both types of tuna is 1. Show the effect of this increase in income on the change in his optimal choice of canned and fresh tuna, highlighting his income-consumption curve. Clearly label your graph. Reflect the proportional changes in your graph

2/ Assume a piece of jewelry and 2 consecutive drops in its price. Also consider Alia’s demand to be relative elastic in the price range from ?1 to ?2, and that she perceives jewelry as a Giffen good in the price range from ?2 to ?3. Draw her price-consumption curve with well-behaved preferences. Clearly label your graph. 

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