Question 6 In the movie Shallow Hal, Jack Black plays a character that only care

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Question 6

In the movie Shallow Hal, Jack Black plays a character that only cares about a woman’s look. If we graph the preferences of Jack Black for dating with “personality” in the x1 axis and “looks” in the x2 axis, then the IC’s will be

postive slope and increasing utility up

vertical and increasing utility to the right

horizontal and increasing utility up

horizontal and increasing utility down

vertical and increasing utility left

postive slope and increasing utility up

vertical and increasing utility to the right

horizontal and increasing utility up

horizontal and increasing utility down

vertical and increasing utility left

Explanation / Answer

A person or commodity can be neutral (or a neutral good) in which case the consumer(Jack Black) does not care whether he has more or less of that commodity(referring to the personality traits of the woman). That is, more or less of a neuter does not affect his satisfaction in any way. If a commodity X(personality of woman) is a neuter good and Y(Looks of woman) a normal good, then indifference curves will be horizontal lines.

and the direction of preference will be upward to the north indicating thereby that the higher level of indifference curve will mean higher level of satisfaction because upward movement will mean a ‘good’ commodity is increasing, the quantity of a neuter good remaining the same.

In the movie Shallow Hal, Jack Black plays a character that only cares about a woman’s looks, that is Jack Black is neutral about personality. If we graph the preferences of Jack Black for dating with “personality” in theY axis and “looks” in the X axis, then the IC’s will be horizontal and increasing utility up.

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