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Consider a consumer who can buy good 1 or 2. The price of good 1 is $5 and the price for good 2 is $4. The consumer has income of 60. She buys 12 units of good 2. The consumer wants to also purchase 2 units of good 1. Which statement is true?Group of answer choicesThis is feasible, as the consumer is inside her budget setThis is outside the consumer’s budget set – it is unaffordableThis is affordable – the consumer would be consuming on her budget constraintall of the abovenone of the above PreviousNext

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Consider a consumer who can buy good 1 or 2. The price of good 1 is 5andthepriceforgood2is5 and the price for good 2 is 4. The consumer has income of 60. She buys 12 units of good 2. The consumer wants to also purchase 2 units of good 1. Which statement is true?Group of answer choicesThis is feasible, as the consumer is inside her budget setThis is outside the consumer’s budget set – it is unaffordableThis is affordable – the consumer would be consuming on her budget constraintall of the abovenone of the above PreviousNext

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Let's break this down:

  1. The consumer has an income of $60.

  2. The price of good 1 is 5andtheconsumerwantstobuy2units.So,shewouldspend5 and the consumer wants to buy 2 units. So, she would spend 5 * 2 = $10 on good 1.

  3. The price of good 2 is 4andtheconsumerbuys12units.So,shespends4 and the consumer buys 12 units. So, she spends 4 * 12 = $48 on good 2.

  4. Add the amount spent on good 1 and good 2 to find out the total expenditure. 10+10 + 48 = $58.

  5. Since the total expenditure (58)islessthantheconsumersincome(58) is less than the consumer's income (60), this is feasible. The consumer is inside her budget set, meaning she can afford to buy the desired quantities of both goods and still have money left over.

So, the correct answer is "This is feasible, as the consumer is inside her budget set."

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