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Given reasons, state why the following two conditions must be satisfied when a consumer is in equilibrium. (i) A budget line must be tangent to an indifference curve. (ii) Marginal rate of substitution must be diminishing. |
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Answer» Solution :(i) Only when the budget line is tangent to an indifference CURVE, it indicates the highest LEVEL of satisfaction that a consumer can attain given his money income and the price of two commodities. (ii) DIMINISHING marginal rate of substitution ENSURE that the indifference curve is CONVEX to the origin. Only then the point of tangency becomes the point of consumer.s equilibrium . |
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