Lucetta Changes Light Bulbs

question 69

Essay

Lucetta changes light bulbs.She is paid $10 an hour.She can work as many hours as she wishes.Lucetta works only 6 hours a day.But she says she loves her job and is happier working at this job than she would be if she made the same income without working at all.Though this may sound strange, Lucetta is perfectly rational.Draw a graph showing leisure on the horizontal axis and income on the vertical axis.Draw a budget line and some indifference curves for Lucetta that are consistent with Lucetta's words and actions.Explain in words what happens.

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