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    Intermediate Micro-

    Economics

    Assignment # 1

    Submitted by: Ali Taimur


    BS-Economics 2K9

    Submitted to: Ms. Verda Salman

    Q.1 Harry Hype has $5,000 to spend on advertising a new kind of dehydrated
    sushi. Market research shows that the people most likely to buy this new product
    are recent recipients of M.B.A. degrees and lawyers who own hot tubs. Harry is
    considering advertising in two publications, a boring business magazine and a
    trendy consumer publication for people
    who wish they lived in California.
    Fact 1: Ads in the boring business magazine cost $500 each and ads in the
    consumer magazine cost $250 each.
    Fact 2: Each ad in the business magazine will be read by 1,000 recent M.B.A.’s
    and 300 lawyers with hot tubs.
    Fact 3: Each ad in the consumer publication will be read by 300 recent M.B.A.’s
    and 250 lawyers who own hot tubs.
    Fact 4: Nobody reads more than one ad, and nobody who reads one magazine
    reads the other.

    (a) If Harry spends his entire advertising budget on the business publication,
    how many recent M.B.A’s and lawyers with hot tubs read that?
    (b) If he spends his entire advertising budget on the consumer publication, how
    many recent M.B.A’s and lawyers with hot tubs read that?
    (c) Suppose he spent half of his advertising budget on each publication. What
    will be the case?
    (d) Draw a “budget line” showing the combinations of number of readings by
    recent M.B.A.’s and by lawyers with hot tubs that he can obtain if he spends
    his entire advertising budget. Does this line extend all the way to the axes?
    Sketch, shade in, and label the budget set, which includes all the
    combinations of MBA’s and lawyers he can reach if he
    spends no more than his budget.
    (e) Let M stand for the number of instances of an ad being read by an M.B.A.
    and L stand
    for the number of instances of an ad being read by a lawyer. Write the
    budget line in the above context. With a fixed advertising budget, how many
    readings by M.B.A.’s must he sacrifice to get an additional reading by a
    lawyer with a hot tub?

    Q.2 Suppose that the utility functions u(x, y) and v(x, y) are related by v(x, y)
    = f(u(x, y)). In each case below, show whether the function f is a positive
    monotonic transformation or not.
    (Hint for calculus users: A differentiable function f(u) is an increasing function
    of u if its derivative is positive.)
    (a) f(u) = 3.141592u.
    (b) f(u) = 5, 000 − 23u.
    (c) f(u) = u − 100, 000.
    (d) f(u) = log10 u.
    (e) f(u) = −e−u.
    (f) f(u) = 1/u.
    (g) f(u) = −1/u.
    Q.3 Willy Wheeler’s preferences over bundles that contain nonnegative amounts
    of x1 and x2 are represented by the utility function U(x1, x2) =x21+ x22
    .
    (a) Draw a few of his indifference curves. What kind of geometric figures are
    they?
    (b)Does Willy have convex preferences?

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