If Bernice (Whose Utility Function Is Min{x, Y}, Where X

question 23

Multiple Choice

If Bernice (whose utility function is min{x, y}, where x is her consumption of earrings and y is money left for other stuff) had an income of $20 and was paying a price of $1 for earrings when the price of earrings went up to $6, then the equivalent variation of the price change was

• A)$50.
• B)$14.29.
• C)$7.14.
• D)$100.
• E)$32.14.

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Definitions:

Simple Random Samples

A sample where each member of the population has an equal chance of being selected.

Sampling Distribution

The probability distribution of a given statistic based on a random sample, central to inferential statistics for estimating population parameters.

Center

In statistics, the central tendency of a dataset, which is a measure that seeks to define the most typical or representative value of the dataset, like the mean, median, or mode.

Sampling Variability

The extent to which the statistic obtained from different samples for the same population varies.