Tom's monthly budget to spend on eating and drinking is 500 euros. One beer costs 3 euros and a slice of pizza costs 2 euros. (a) Write and plot Tom's budget constraint (b) What is the slope of the budget constraint? What is the economic interpretation? (c) Use the lagrangian method to solve for the optimal choice of beer and pizza slices per month. Plot this choice in a graph containing the budget constraint and the indifference curve

Tom's monthly budget to spend on eating and drinking is 500 euros. One beer costs 3 euros and a slice of pizza costs 2 euros. (a) Write and plot Tom's budget constraint (b) What is the slope of the budget constraint? What is the economic interpretation? (c) Use the lagrangian method to solve for the optimal choice of beer and pizza slices per month. Plot this choice in a graph containing the budget constraint and the indifference curve

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