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Econ problem, please help!

Bigblades

Senior member
The question is about maximizing utility of pizza and beer. Budget contraints and stuff.
Question goes:

Suppose that the price of pizza equals 6 dollars and the price of pizza is 1.5 dollars. Her salary is 18000 dollars, maximize the utility where U = zb .

so you get 6z + 1.5b = 18000 and the marginal rate of substitution is 4b = 1z . Replacing that you get
 
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