The province wishes to improve the environment and will subsidise Pottsville, your hometown, $ 2 for every $1 you spend on sewage plants up to a maximum of $ 12,600. Pottsville's budget is $ 9,000. The price of sewage plants (X) is $90 and the price of non-sewage plants (Y) is $ 30. Carefully draw the new budget line labelling all points of interest. Non-Sewage plants 300 280 260 240 220 200 160 120 རྨི་ ཧྲྰི་ཎཱི་ཧྥི རྩི ་ རྩི་ ཧྲྰི་ ཧྲྰི་ ིི་རྩི 100 100 80 60 40 20 225 160 210 230 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 220 240 260 280 300 Sewage plants
The province wishes to improve the environment and will subsidise Pottsville, your hometown, $ 2 for every $1 you spend on sewage plants up to a maximum of $ 12,600. Pottsville's budget is $ 9,000. The price of sewage plants (X) is $90 and the price of non-sewage plants (Y) is $ 30. Carefully draw the new budget line labelling all points of interest. Non-Sewage plants 300 280 260 240 220 200 160 120 རྨི་ ཧྲྰི་ཎཱི་ཧྥི རྩི ་ རྩི་ ཧྲྰི་ ཧྲྰི་ ིི་རྩི 100 100 80 60 40 20 225 160 210 230 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 220 240 260 280 300 Sewage plants
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Transcribed Image Text:The province wishes to improve the environment and will subsidise Pottsville, your hometown, $
2 for every $1 you spend on sewage plants up to a maximum of $ 12,600. Pottsville's budget is $
9,000. The price of sewage plants (X) is $ 90 and the price of non-sewage plants (Y) is $ 30.
Carefully draw the new budget line labelling all points of interest.
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Transcribed Image Text:At what point, are relative prices unaffected? Give the co-ordinates
(i.e. at what point do you obtain the maximum grant)
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How much better off are you with the conditional grant?
What is the amount of the conditional grant?
With an unconditional grant of the same dollar amount, how much better off would you be
compared to the conditional grant?
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