Question

Suppose you won $15 on a lotto ticket at the local 7-Eleven and decided to spend all the winnings on candy bars and bags of peanuts. The price of candy bars is $0.75 and the price of peanuts is $1.50.

a. Complete the table below showing the alternative combinations of the two products that are available.
Instructions:Enter only whole numbers.
Consumption Alternatives
Goods A B C D E F
Candy Bars 0 4 8 12 16 20
Bags of Peanuts
b. Use the data in the above table to plot a budget line in the graph with candy bars on the horizontal axis.

Answer 1

a)

candy bars bags of peanuts

20 0

16 2

12 4

8 6

4 8

0 10

b)

I attached the budget line graph