Mr Cog in Problem 7 Has 18 Hours a Day

question 14

Multiple Choice

Mr. Cog in Problem 7 has 18 hours a day to divide between labor and leisure. If he has 17 dollars of nonlabor income per day and gets a wage rate of 13 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) R += 329.
• B) 13R + C = 17.
• C) C = 251 + 13R.
• D) 13R + C = 251.
• E) C = 302 + 13R.

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