Table 11-6 Consider the City of Widgetapolis with Only Four Residents, John

question 408

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Table 11-6
Consider the city of Widgetapolis with only four residents, John, James, Mary, and Lydia. The four residents are trying to determine how many hours to spend in cleaning up the public lake. The table below shows each resident's willingness to pay for each hour of cleaning. ​
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-Refer to Table 11-6. Suppose the cost of cleaning the lake is $20 per hour, and that the residents have agreed to split the cost of cleaning the lake equally. If the residents vote to determine the number of hours spent cleaning the lake, basing their decision solely on what maximizes their own surplus, what is the most number of hours for which all four residents would vote "yes?"

• A)3 hours
• B)4 hours
• C)5 hours
• D)6 hours

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