Oversensitivity to losing money such that people can"t move on: status quo bias. Tendency to avoid making decisions, people just keep doing what they"re doing. Utility (happiness): value or satisfaction from consumption: there is no saving. Consumers spend all income: marginal utility/ bene t diminishes overtime. Diminishing marginal utility/bene t: each additional unit of a good adds less to utility than the previous unit. People buy consumption bundles, which are a collection of goods and services, consumers use utils as a measure of happiness. Each successive unit of a good adds less utility than the last one in general, it"s diminishing, but it doesn"t have to be. People have constraints on income and time. An increase in income shifts the budget constraint outward. If prices change, the slope of the budget constraint changes. The slope of the budget constraint equals the amount of beer the consumer can afford if he gives up one pizza.

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1. If marginal utility is negative, total utility is

a. Positive

b. Negative

c. Decreasing

d. Constant

e. Increasing

2. If utility-maximizing consumers face identical prices, they will have identical

a. Marginal utilities for each good

b. Ratio of marginal utilities for each good

c. Preferences

d. Ratios of total utilities for each good

e. Total utilities for each good

3. The substitution effect

a. Always increases quantity demanded of a good whose relative price has fallen

b. Is opposite in sign to the income effect for all normal goods

c. Is opposite in sign to the income effect for all normal goods

d. May cause demand curves to be upward sloping

e. Is always dominated by the income effect for normal goods

4. Demand curves for normal goods slope downward because

a. The substitution effect of a price change is greater than the income effect

b. Substitution and income effects work in the same direction

c. The income effect is always greater than the substitution effect

d. The income effect is always less than the substitution effect

e. None of the above

5. The idea that a consumer derives less additional satisfaction from consuming successive units of a good is called

a. Diminishing consumer surplus

b. The paradox of value

c. Diminishing marginal utility

d. Diminishing total value of consumption

e. Diminishing total utility

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1. Suppose that the total utility from consuming one unit of good X is 54 utils, the total utility of two units of good X is 74 utils, and the total utility of three units of good X is 84 utils. The marginal utility of the third unit is

a.70.67 utils.

b.10 utils.

c.12.25 utils.

d.20 utils.

2. If income rises, the budget constraint

a. Moves outward away from the origin

b. Does not move

c. Moves inward toward the origin

d. Moves farther down the vertical axis

3. Economists assume that the goal of consumers is to maximize total utility.

true/false

4. The budget constraint cuts the horizontal axis at 12 units of good X and it cuts the vertical axis at 20 units of good Y. If the price of good X is $20 and the price of good Y is $12, then what does income equal?

a. $200

b. $240

c. $520

d. $280

e. not enough information to answer this question

5. Consumer equilibrium exists when an individual

a. can be made better off by buying more of a normal good and less of an inferior good.

b. is receiving the same total utility from each of the goods he or she purchases.

c. is receiving the same marginal utility from each of the goods he or she purchases.

d. has the same MU/P ratio for each of the goods he or she purchases.

e. none of the above

6. Suppose you are eating buffalo wings at a local happy hour. The total utils from doing so after the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh wings are 30, 50, 65, 72, respectively. In this situation we have __________ marginal utility, which is generally __________ in the analysis of consumer choice.

a. diminishing; not assumed

b. increasing; assumed

c. diminishing; assumed

d. increasing; not assumed

7. Which of the following best describes an interpersonal utility comparison?

a. Usually, Smith seems a lot happier than Jones.

b. Smith gets more utility from working on his computer than Jones gets from working on his computer.

c. Smith usually eats more in a day than Jones eats in a day.

d. ones likes computers produced by Dell Computer Corporation and Smith likes computers produced by Apple Computer Inc

e. Smith got less utility from eating the 30th cookie than eating the 29th cookie, and the same holds for Jones.

8. We would expect the total utility of water to be high but its marginal utility to be low. Why?

a. Because we need water to live and there is so much of it.

b. Because we need water to live and there is very little of it.

c. Because water is a fluid and we don't need fluids to live as much as we need food

d. Because water's price is low.

9.The marginal utility curve for units 6 through 8 of good Z lies below the horizontal axis. What does this imply must be true about the total utility curve for units 6 through 8 of good Z?

a. That portion of good Zâs total utility curve must also lie below the horizontal axis.

b. That portion of good Zâs total utility curve must be upward sloping.

c. That portion of good Zâs total utility curve must be horizontal.

d. That portion of good Zâs total utility curve must be downward sloping.

10. Research presented in the text shows that people are more concerned with their absolute income position in a group than their relative income position in the group.

true/false

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