Vhee Ayar lives alone in a computer lab where it spends 10 hours per day producing spurious orside calls (denoted xf) and awarding incomprehensible penalties (denoted xp). Vhee Ayar can conjure 8 offside calls per hour, and it can summon 6 penalties per hour. The utility that Vhee Ayar derives from offside calls and penalties is captured by the utility function U(xf, xp) = 3xf x0,5. How many offside calls and penalty kicks will Vhee Ayar choose to produce/consume each day?

Vhee Ayar lives alone in a computer lab where it spends 10 hours per day producing spurious orside calls (denoted xf) and awarding incomprehensible penalties (denoted xp). Vhee Ayar can conjure 8 offside calls per hour, and it can summon 6 penalties per hour. The utility that Vhee Ayar derives from offside calls and penalties is captured by the utility function U(xf, xp) = 3xf x0,5. How many offside calls and penalty kicks will Vhee Ayar choose to produce/consume each day?

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Chapter1: Making Economics Decisions

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