Assume That a Consumer Has a Given Budget or Income

question 257

Multiple Choice

Assume that a consumer has a given budget or income of $12 and that she can buy only two goods, apples or bananas. The price of an apple is $1.50 and the price of a banana is $0.75. If the consumer decides to buy 4 apples, how many bananas can she also buy with the remainder of her budget?

• A) 8 bananas
• B) 4 bananas
• C) 6 bananas
• D) 10 bananas

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Definitions:

Normal Distribution

A bell-shaped probability distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.

T Distribution

A probability distribution that is used in statistics to estimate population parameters when the sample size is small and the population variance is unknown.

Two-sided Test

A statistical test where the region of rejection is on both sides of the sampling distribution, used to determine if there's a significant difference from a specific value.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or variables that are free to vary in a statistical analysis, critical for determining the significance of test results.