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The CF pleur/o means:

Egyptians believed in monotheism which worshipped Ra, the Sun god. 

What does the abbreviation CPAP mean?

Use pulmon/o to build a word that means specialist in the study of lungs: ____________________

The assumption that preferences are complete:

Laura Mussel is a very important client of your consulting company. Her preferences between golf and tennis are represented by U(g, t) = g1/2 + t, where g is the number of rounds of golf and t is the number of tennis matches she plays per week.  The price of g is $1 each and the price of t is $2 each. Laura is planning to spend $11 in total. The optimal amount of tennis matches she should play is:

Diminishing marginal utility occurs when

Assume that food is measured on the horizontal axis and clothing on the vertical axis. If the price of food falls relative to that of clothing, the budget line will: 

  Judith Grimes wants to switch her cellphone carrier to mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). FreedomMobile offers a plan with no monthly service fee and a price of $3 per GB data usage. Judith has a monthly income of $900, and her utility function is U=x1/2g1/2, where x is money spent on other goods and g is the amount of GB data usage. Judith’s budget constraint is x + 3g = 900 The MRS =MUx/MUg of Judith’s utility function is g/x. If Judith chooses FreedomMobile’s plan, at her optimal consumption bundle, she should use [response2] GB data. (please round to integer) Another company, MintMobile offers a plan with a monthly service fee $100 and a price of $1 per GB data usage. If Judith chooses MintMobile’s plan, at her optimal consumption bundle, she should use [response3] GB data. (please round to integer) (The MRS will be the same)      

If indifference curves are concave to the origin, which assumption on preferences is violated?