For lunch, maria eats only salads or vegetarian burgers. her weekly food budget is $36. each salad costs $6 and each vegetarian burger costs $3. when deciding how much of each good to buy, maria knows that 2 salads and 4 vegetarian burgers will give her a utility of 8. maria’s utility-maximizing point is: a. 6 salads, 1 vegetarian burgerb. 4 salads, 6 vegetarian burgersc. 3 salads, 6 vegetarian burgersd. 2 salads, 8 vegetarian burgers

The correct answer is C.

Explanation:

Supposing that more is preferred to less, Maria would never choose a point where she's below her budget line. That is, Maria will spend all of her rent.

Therefore we can already discard possibilities like:

The individual is not maximizing utility is she were to choose this bundle.

This bundle is beyond what Maria can afford.

Further, assuming that Maria has convex preferences, she'll choose a point where she buys more of both goods rather than specializing in the consumption of one of them. That leaves bundle D aside over bundle C because even though both bundles satisfy her budget condition M=$36, bundle C provides more utility to Maria than bundle D for being located in a more centric solution along her budget line.

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