Suppose Flo's demand for coffee per day is P = 10 - 2.14*Q and Terra's demand for coffee is P = 6 - 2*Q. If the price of coffee is $3 a cup, how many cups (Q) of coffee do Flo and Terra buy per day.

Two students, Nick and Sofia, are discussing normal and inferior goods. Nick says that if Frodo buys more beer when the price of beer goes up, then beer must be an inferior good for Frodo. If, on the other hand, he buys less beer when the price of beer goes up, then beer must be a normal good for Frodo. Sofia disagrees: "Normal and inferior goods are about income changes, not price changes. Therefore, we do not have enough information: beer could be an inferior or normal good in either of these cases." Do you agree or disagree? Carefully explain your point of view. Support your argument with graphs of income, substitution and total effects (please put beer on the horizontal axis and the other goods on the vertical axis). Please assume that Frodo's preferences over beer and other goods are strictly convex and satisfy "more is better" assumption.

Recall that Casper's utility function is 3x + y, where x is his consumption of cocoa and y is his consumption of cheese. If the total cost of x units of cocoa is x2, the price of cheese is $8, and Casper's income is $184, how many units of cocoa will he consume?

To maximize total utility, consumers will always choose the marginal unit of the good that yields the most marginal utility per price. True False

Agatha has $825 to spend on tickets for her trip. She intends to spend the entire amount and prefers traveling first class to traveling second class. Agatha needs to travel a total of 1500 miles. Suppose that the price of first-class tickets is $0.60 per mile and the price of second-class tickets is $0.30 per mile. How many miles will she travel by second class?

If the consumer is consuming exactly two goods, and she is always spending all of her money, can both of them be inferior goods?

Jen from Thunder Bay consumes housing (H) and food (F). Her studentstipend is $600/month. She has a utility function of U(H, F) = F1/3H2/3.The initial price of food is pF = 1 and the price of housing is pH = 10. (a) Determine how much food and housing she consumes.(b) Suppose the government decides to subsidize her housing by 50%.This has the effect of lowering the price she actually pays for housingto $5. If the price of food is $1 and the price of housing is $5, calculateJen’s utility maximizing bundle of goods.(c) How much does the Government spend on this program (just on Jen)?(d) Calculate her utility level using the utility function above and thequantities consumed.(e) Calculate Jen’s utility maximizing bundle and her resulting utilitylevel if the government chooses to simply give her the money theywould have spent on the program (rather than subsidize housing).How much utility does Jen get?(f) Given the two programs cost the same, which one is better for Jen?Illustrate the…

You may have observed that items such as different brands of aspirin, tomato sauce, or gasoline are typically priced the same as each other. This is particularly true when consumers can find these goods in close proximity to each other. For example, prices are often the same at gas stations that are on opposite sides of the street. Prices are also generally the same for products next to each other on the same grocery store shelf. Choose the correct fill in the blank.  The aforementioned examples are goods that are likely to be  substitutes or complements You would expect the value of the cross-price elasticity to be  insignificant, small, or large because the opportunity cost of getting information on price is low.

At her current level of consumption, jess gets half as much marginal utility from an aditional bagel as form an additional muffin, if the price of muffin is $2 each, then jess is maximizing her utility if the price of a bagel is :

Maya is doing her undergrad at Queen's University. She loves donuts and chocolate chip cookies (CCC). Her utility function is given by u(x, y) = √8x +5 + 2y, where x denotes her consumption of donuts and y denotes her consumption of CCC. Her budget is $10/day. The price of a donut is $1. (a) When the price of CCC is $1, what is Maya's optimal choice of donuts and CCC? (b) When the price of CCC is $8, what is Maya's optimal choice of donuts and CCC? (c) When the price of CCC increases from $1 to $8, calculate Maya's substitution effect and income effect. (d) According to your calculation in part (c), is CCC a normal good or an inferior good? Explain. Is CCC an ordinary good or a Giffen good? Explain.