An economy has two people, Charlie and Doris. There are two goods, apples and bananas. Charlie has an initial endowment of 3 apples and 12 bananas. Doris has an initial endowment of 6 apples and 6 bananas. Charlie's utility function is U(AC, BC) = ACBC, where AC is his apple consumption and BC is his banana consumption. Doris's utility function is U(AD, BD) = ADBD, where AD and BD are her apple and banana consumptions. At every Pareto optimal allocation,
A) Charlie consumes the same number of apples as Doris.
B) Charlie consumes 9 apples for every 18 bananas that he consumes.
C) Doris consumes equal numbers of apples and bananas.
D) Charlie consumes more bananas per apple than Doris does.
E) Doris consumes 6 apples for every 6 bananas that she consumes.
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