On a Certain Island There Are Only Two Goods, Wheat

question 9

Multiple Choice

On a certain island there are only two goods, wheat and milk.The only scarce resource is land.There are 1,000 acres of land.An acre of land will produce either 3 units of milk or 7 units of wheat.Some citizens have lots of land; some have just a little bit.The citizens of the island all have utility functions of the form U(M, W) = MW.At every Pareto optimal allocation,

• A)the number of units of milk produced equals the number of units of wheat produced.
• B)all citizens consume the same commodity bundle.
• C)total milk production is 1,500 units.
• D)every consumer's marginal rate of substitution between milk and wheat is -1.
• E)None of the above is true at every Pareto optimal allocation.

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