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a)Assume that the typical consumer always spends a small share of her overall budget on Vietnamese meals and use the utility maximization conditions to find the demand for Vietnamese food of the typical consumer (keep in mind that since utility is quasi-linear, you can find demand without information about the consumer’s weekly budget).

b) Sum across consumers to find the weekly market demand for Vietnamese meals in NYC.

In the city, 120,000 potential consumers are interested in Vietnamese food. Each consumer has preferences for Vietnamese
meals (V) and money spent on other items (m) summarized in the utility function Uj(Vj,m;) = 20V; – 5V? + mj. where Vjis the
weekly number of Vietnamese meals a consumer buys and mj is consumer j's expenditure on all other products (keep in mind
that Pm =
$1)

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