Question

Mila is at a flea market. She has $50 in her wallet. She decides that she will spend $15 on jewelry, $20 on a pair of jeans, $5 on a T-shirt, and $10 on something to eat. She likes a one-of-a-kind T-shirt, but the seller is not ready to sell it for less than $8. She thinks of five ways to deal with this situation. Which two choices indicate a trade-off?

A - She will try to find another seller selling the T-shirt for a lower price.

B - She will give up on the T-shirt and use the money to buy better jeans.

C - She will use some of the money she received from her aunt on her birthday.

D - She will pay the seller $5 and promise to pay the remainder on another day.

E - She will buy the T-shirt for $8 and not order juice at lunch.


*Pick more than one answer*

Answer 1

The two options indicating a trade-off are B and E.

B) She will give up on the T-shirt and use the money to buy better jeans.She trades off between the t-shirt and higher quality jeans.

Tradeoff: She gives up her entire $5 t-shirt budget to increase her jeans budget by $5.


E) She will buy the T-shirt for $8 and not order juice at lunch.

Tradeoff: She gives up her juice with lunch, reducing her lunch budget by $3 from $10 to $7, and increases her T-shirt budget by the same $3 from $5 to $8, in order to buy the cool t-shirt.

Answers are B and E. The other answers do not involve a budgetary trade-off between items. (She doesn't give up an item to get another item).