Consider a consumer who has a direct utility function given as U(x₁, x2) = (x1+x25)² where ₁ > 0 and 2 > 0. The consumer chooses to spend his entire income m on the consumption of two goods, where each good has a price of p₁ and p2 respectively. • Obtain the marginal utility of each good. give the domain of these quantities. • Obtain the marginal rate of substitution for goods 1 and 2 (i.e. MRS12). • Calculate the direct second-order partial derivatives for goods 1 and 2. What economic principle does this adhere to?
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- 1 Consider a consumer who consumes only two goods, 21 and z2. His utility function is u (21, 22) = In z1 + 2. where In represents the natural logarithm. 1.a Derive the consumer's MRS of good 1 for good 2 using calculus to calculate his marginal utility from z and his marginal utility from z2. 1.b If the price of z1 is $2 per unit and the price of z2 is $4 per unit, and the consumer's income is $100, What is the equation of this consumer's budget line? 1.c What are the optimal consumption choices, z and z5, for this consumer? Show your work.The utility of a consumer derives from consuming the two goods X and Y can be assumed to be determined by the utility functionU(X,Y)= 4X03Y05. If good X costs 10 birr a unit and good Y costs 15 birr a unit and the consumer's income is 120 birr. What combination of X and Y that will maximize utility?A consumer consumes two agricultural products: Red Meat, and Tomatoes according to the following utility function: U = RT That is, the total utility is the multiplication of the quantity consumed of the two products. Given that consumer's income is 210, price of R is 10, and the price of Tis 2, a)Write down the budget constraint (budget line equation) for this consumer. b)Determine the quantities that the consumer should consume of each of the two products c)Calculate the value of the lagrangian multiplier and derive the demand function for Red Meat and for tomatoes.
- Assume, as in Exercise 22.1, that a consumer has utility function F or fruit and chocolate. Determine the consumer's demand functions q1(P1, P2, M) and q2(P1, P2, M). Determine also It* in terms of P1, P2 and M. Find the indirect utility function and show that It* = 8Vj8M. Suppose, as before, that fruit costs $1 per unit and chocolate $2 per unit. If the income is raised from $36 to $36.5, determine the precise value of the resulting change in the indirect utility function. Show that this is approximately equal to (O.5)λ*, where λ* is evaluated at P1 = 1,P2 = 2 and M = 36. Exercise 22.1 A consumer purchases quantities of two commodities, fruit and chocolate, each month. The consumer's utility function is For a bundle (X1, X2) of X1 units of fruit and X2 units of chocolate. The consumer has a total of $49 to spend on fruit and chocolate each month. Fruit cost $1 per unit and chocolate costs $2 per unit. How many units of each should the consumer buy…Assume that a person's utility function is given by the following function: TU = 2x/2y/2 Assume also that the price of X is £2, and the price of Y is £6 and that the budget is £240. What is the optimal amount of goods X and Y that should be purchased with this budget?3) Oğuz has the utility function U(x1,X2) = x:*x2². (X: nuts, X2: berries). %3D a) If Oğuz has 25 units of nuts and 17 units of berries, the price of nuts is 2 and the price of berries is 1 liras, what would be the optimal consumption of Oğuz? b) Assume the prices change, so that nuts cost 1 and berries cost 3 liras. What is the new demand? In this change, What is the pure substitution effect? What is the income effect? c) In the change calculated in part (b), what is the pure substitution effect? d) In the change calculated in part (b), what is the income effect? In the change calculated in part (b), what is the endowment effect?
- You consume music (M) and concert tickets (C). Your utility function is U(M, C) = M1/4C3/4. The marginal utility for concert tickets, MUC is MUC =3/4C-1/2M1/4 and the marginal utility for music, MUM is MUm = 1/4C3/4M-3/4 (a) Calculate MRSMC using only the given marginal utilities. (b) Solve for the utility of bundle A where M = 16 and C = 16. Solve for your utility at bundle B where M = 128 and C = 8. Are the utilities the same? (c) Calculate MRSMC at bundle A and at bundle B. Are they the same? (d) Are your indifference curves convex? Draw the ICs. Make sure to label the quantities of the consumption bundles, the axis, and the MRS at those bundles.Kate’s utility function includes coffee (c) and sugar (s). She only consumes coffee and sugar together, and she only consumes in the ratio of one unit (cup) of coffee with two units (spoons) of sugar. Her utility function is What is her marginal utility of sugar if she has 4 cups of coffee and 6 spoons of sugar? Remember that unit are infinitely divisible (you can have parts of units). (a) 0 (b) 1 (c) ½ (d) 2Consider a consumer that consumes 2 teaspoons of sugar with each cup of coffee. For each cup of coffee with sugar the consumer gains 10 utils. a)Write down the utility function that gives the total utility if the consumer consumes S teaspoons of sugar and C cups of coffee. The consumer has assigned £7 per week to be spent on drinking coffee with sugar. The current price of coffee is £0.50 per cup and each spoon of sugar costs £0.10. b)Calculate the optimal weekly consumption bundle for this consumer. c)Does the consumer view C and S as complements or substitutes?
- For each of the following utility functions get the marginal utility of consumption of each of the goods. 1/2 1/2 (a) u(a,b) = a b (b) u(x, y) = x³/4y1/4 (c) u(a, b) = n(a) + In(x) (d) u(x, y) = ln(x) + ln(y) (e) u(a, b) = 2xa +XbSuppose Paco has an annual entertainment budget of I. He spends his entertainment budget on only 2 goods: video games and movies. The price of a video game is P, and the price of a movie is Pm. Paco's utility function for video games (v) and movies (m) is: U(v, m) = 4v²m. a. Derive Paco's demand functions for video games and movies as functions of only exogenous variables. b. Write Paco's indirect utility function.1. A consumer has the utility function U(x,y) = 2x y' where x and y represent the quantity consumed of goods X and Y. a) Find the consumer's marginal rate of substitution of X for Y. For parts (b) and (c) assume that the consumer has $100 to spend on goods X and Y which have fixed prices of px=1 and py=3. Use the Lagrangian method to solve the consumer's optimization problem: b) What are the first order conditions of the Lagrangian. Assume the solution to the consumer's optimization problem is c) interior. Solve for the consumer's optimal consumption bundle for any prices and income.