Suppose that with a budget of $210, Fatima spends $126 on sushi and $84 on bagels when sushi costs $2 per piece and bagels cost $2 per bagel. Then, after the price of bagels falls to $1 per bagel. Instructions: Enter your answers as a whole number. How many pieces of sushi and how many bagels did Fatima consume before the price change? pieces of sushi and | bagels At the new prices, how much money would it have cost Fatima to buy those same quantities (that is, the quantities that she consumed before the price change)? Given that it used to take Fatima's entire $210 to buy those quantities, how big is the income effect caused by the lower price of bagels?
Suppose that with a budget of $210, Fatima spends $126 on sushi and $84 on bagels when sushi costs $2 per piece and bagels cost $2 per bagel. Then, after the price of bagels falls to $1 per bagel. Instructions: Enter your answers as a whole number. How many pieces of sushi and how many bagels did Fatima consume before the price change? pieces of sushi and | bagels At the new prices, how much money would it have cost Fatima to buy those same quantities (that is, the quantities that she consumed before the price change)? Given that it used to take Fatima's entire $210 to buy those quantities, how big is the income effect caused by the lower price of bagels?
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Transcribed Image Text:Suppose that with a budget of $210, Fatima spends $126 on sushi and $84 on bagels when sushi costs $2 per piece and bagels cost
$2 per bagel. Then, after the price of bagels falls to $1 per bagel.
Instructions: Enter your answers as a whole number.
How many pieces of sushi and how many bagels did Fatima consume before the price change?
pieces of sushi and
bagels
At the new prices, how much money would it have cost Fatima to buy those same quantities (that is, the quantities that she consumed
before the price change)?
Given that it used to take Fatima's entire $210 to buy those quantities, how big is the income effect caused by the lower price of
bagels?
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