Your college has three meal plans. One is for 21 meals a week, another for 14 and a third offers only 7. You don't know the price yet but you are certain the 21 would be best. However, your second choice would be to take only the 7 meal plan and if you had to pick a third choice it would be the 14 meal plan. This preference pattern doesn't fit the indifference curve assumption of

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Transitivity is violated here because if you prefer the 21 meal plan over the 7 meal plan and the 7 meal plan over the 14 meal plan, then you should prefer the 21 meal plan over the 14 meal plan to maintain transitivity, but your preference order does not follow this logic.

Your College Has Three Meal Plans