albany.edu My Questions | bartleby Mail - Mangia, Louis M - Outlook Forum: Week Three: Prejudice and Discrimination ( Due ... https://www.albany.edu/~by872279/micro/Hw1.pdf 5. Vera is an impoverished graduate student who has only $100 a month to spend on food. She has read in a government publication that she can assure an adequate diet by eating only peanut butter and carrots in the fixed ratio of 2 pounds of peanut butter to 1 pound of carrots, so she decides to limit her diet to that regime. a) If peanut butter costs $4 per pound and carrots cost $2 per pound, how much can she eat during the month? b) Suppose peanut butter costs rise to $5 because of peanut subsidies albany.edu My Questions | bartleby Mail - Mangia, Louis M - Outlook Forum: Week Three: Prejudice and Discrimination ( Due ... https://www.albany.edu/~by872279/micro/Hw1.pdf introduced by a politically sensitive government. By how much will Vera have to reduce her food purchases? c) How much in food stamp aid would the government have to give Vera to compensate for the effects of peanut subsidy? d) Explain why Vera's preferences are of a very special type here. How would you graph them?
5. Vera is an impoverished graduate student who has only $100 a month to spend on food. She has read in a government publication that she can assure an adequate diet by eating only peanut butter and carrots in the Öxed ratio of 2 pounds of peanut butter to 1 pound of carrots, so she decides to limit her diet to that regime.
a) If peanut butter costs $4 per pound and carrots cost $2 per pound, how much can she eat during the month?
b) Suppose peanut butter costs rise to $5 because of peanut subsidied
introduced by a politically sensitive government. By how much will Vera have to reduce her food purchases?
c) How much in food stamp aid would the government have to give Vera to compensate for the e§ects of peanut subsidy?
d) Explain why Veraís preferences are of a very special type here. How would you graph them?
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