Marginal rate of substitution, Marketing Management

Michael Jordan lives in a world with only two goods:  basketballs and Gatorade.  Basketballs cost $10 each. Gatorade costs $2 per bottle. Point A on the graph below represents Jordan's optimal consumption point given these prices and his income.

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a. Calculate Jordan's marginal rate of substitution of Gatorade for basketballs at point A, and explain in words what this number means.

Suppose now that the price of Gatorade drops to $1/bottle. Jordan's new budget constraint is represented by the line BG.

b. True or False. Explain.

Jordan's new optimum consumption bundle could fall between points B and C or between points F and G if either basketballs or Gatorade is an inferior good.

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