The first unit of the good that Ying consumes is worth $1 to her. O The 4th unit of the good Som consumes is worth $4 to her. The 5th unit of the good Fon consumes is worth less than $6 to her. When the price drops from $8 to $7, Yam's demand increases from 2 to 4 units. This reveals the 3rd and 4th unit of the good she consumes are not worth $7 each to her. Because demand st $10 is O units, no one in this market is voluntarily willing to give up $10 to buy a unit of the good. This means that noone values consumption of the good at more than $10 per unit.
Revealed Preference is when an individual's behavior reveals information about a person's tastes and preferences,i.e. what he likes and dislikes and how much he likes or dislikes a good.
The individual demand schedule and an individual's demand curve reveals a person's tastes and preferences for a good. Specifically it reveals how much each successive unit of the good he consumes is worth to him.
We can say this differently by saying the maximum price a person is willing to pay for a particular unit of the good is how much that unit of the good is worth to him. This value is revealed by his behavior or his willingness to voluntarily give a certain amount of money in exchange for that unit of the good. In other words, how many units of a good a person demands/buys at any given price.
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