Two neighboring homeowners, i = 1,2, simultaneously choose how many hours to spend maintaining a lawn. The AVERAGE benefit per hour for i is (e.g., it is for homeowner 1)And the (opportunity) cost per hour for each homeowner is 4.(a) Give each homeowner’s (net) payoff as a function of and .(b) Compute the Nash equilibrium. 3. Two neighboring homeowners, i = 1,2, simultaneously choose how many hours I, to spendmaintaining a lawn. The AVERAGE benefit per hour for į is(e.g., it is 10-, +2 for homeowner 1)And the (opportunity) cost per hour for each homeowner is 4.(a) Give each homeowner's (net) payoff as a function of 4 and l,.(b) Compute the Nash equilibrium.

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