Intermediate Microeconomics and Its Application 12th Edition by Walter Nicholson,Christopher Snyder

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Throughout this book, we see that consumer surplus areas are often triangular.
1. Explain why this area is measured in monetary values. (Hint: What are the units of the height and width of the consumer surplus triangle?)2. Suppose that the price of a product rose by 10 percent. Would you expect the size of the consumer surplus triangle to fall by more or less than 10 percent?