Mary Granola consumes apples and uglifruits.Mary's indifference curves are kinky.When she is consuming more apples than uglifruits, she is just willing to trade 3 apples for 1 uglifruit.When she is consuming more uglifruits than apples, she is just willing to trade 4 uglifruits for 1 apple.Let P1 be the price of uglifruits and P2 the price of apples.Mary maximizes her utility subject to her budget constraint.(Hint: Sketch one of her indifference curves.)
A) When P1 >3P2, she must consume only apples.
B) When P1 > P2, she must consume 3 times as many apples as uglifruits.
C) When 4P1 >P2, she must consume only uglifruits.
D) When P1 >P2, she must consume only apples.
E) She must consume equal numbers of both.
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