Mr Cog in Problem 7 Has 18 Hours a Day

question 15

Multiple Choice

Mr. Cog in Problem 7 has 18 hours a day to divide between labor and leisure. If he has 9 dollars of nonlabor income per day and gets a wage rate of 15 dollars per hour when he works, his budget equation, expressing combinations of consumption and leisure that he can afford to have, can be written as

• A) C = 279 + 15R.
• B) 15R + C = 9.
• C) 15R + C = 279.
• D) R += 369.
• E) C = 306 + 15R.

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