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Why do people tend to eat more at all-you-can-eat buffet restaurants than at restaurants where each item is purchased separately?
O MU/P is consistently greater at all-you-can-eat restaurants.
O Food at all-you-can-eat restaurants tends to have fewer calories, so consumers feel the need to consume
greater volume of food.
O People who eat at all-you-can-eat restaurants do not experience diminishing marginal utility.
O Once the all-you-can-eat meal purchased, consumers view additional trips back to the buffet as having a price of zero.
QUESTION 4
Total utility is best defined as the
O additional satisfaction received from consuming one more unit of a product.
O total satisfaction received from consuming a given amount of a product.
O maximum amount of satisfaction from consuming a product.
O change in marginal utility multiplied by the price of a product.
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