A Consumer's Demand for Tuna Can Be Found from an Indifference

question 126

Multiple Choice

A consumer's demand for tuna can be found from an indifference curve diagram by doing which of the following?

• A) observing what happens to the consumption of tuna for different income levels
• B) finding where the budget line is tangent to an indifference curve for one price of tuna
• C) allowing the price of tuna to change and observing the different best, affordable levels of tuna
• D) changing the indifference curves and seeing the changes in the quantity of tuna the consumer demands
• E) it is impossible to derive a demand curve from an indifference curve graph

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