Shirley spends all her income on movies and popcorn and the table shows her consumption possibilities.
| Movies (number per week) | Popcorn (cartons per week) |
| 0 | 20 |
| 1 | 15 |
| 2 | 10 |
| 3 | 5 |
| 4 | 0 |
If Shirley spends $40 a week:
a)what is the price of a carton of popcorn?
b)what is the price of a movie ticket?
c)what is the opportunity cost of a movie in terms of popcorn?
d) what is Shirley's real income in terms of popcorn?
a) With the expenditure of $40 she can buy 20 pop corn, that means the price of the popcorn is $2.
b) She can buy a total of 4 movie tickets, this will make the price of the movie ticket to be $10.
c) she can get 4 movie of 20 popcorn so the opportunity cost of movie is 20/4 = 5 popcorn. to watch a movie she has to given up 5 pop corn.
d) In terms of Pop corn her real income is 20 popcorn.
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