Class 12 Micro Economics - Chapter Theory of Consumer Behaviour NCERT Solutions | Suppose there are 20 consumers for a goo

A consumer wants to consume two goods. The prices of the two goods are Rs 4
and Rs 5 respectively. The consumer’s income is Rs 20.
(i) Write down the equation of the budget line.
(ii) How much of good 1 can the consumer consume if she spends her entire
income on that good?
(iii) How much of good 2 can she consume if she spends her entire income on
that good?
(iv) What is the slope of the budget line?
Questions 5, 6 and 7 are related to question 4.

Suppose your friend is indifferent to the bundles (5, 6) and (6, 6). Are the preferences of your friend monotonic?

What is budget line?

Explain why the budget line is downward sloping.

What do you mean by an ‘inferior good’? Give some examples

Consider the demand curve D (p) = 10 – 3p. What is the elasticity at price 53?

Suppose a consumer’s preferences are monotonic. What can you say about her preference ranking over the bundles (10, 10), (10, 9) and (9, 9)?

Suppose a consumer wants to consume two goods which are available only in
integer units. The two goods are equally priced at Rs 10 and the consumer’s
income is Rs 40.
(i) Write down all the bundles that are available to the consumer.
(ii) Among the bundles that are available to the consumer, identify those which cost her exactly Rs 40.

Explain price elasticity of demand.

What do you mean by substitutes? Give examples of two goods which are substitutes of each other.

Explain the concept of a production function

What would be the shape of the demand curve so that the total revenue curve is?

(a) A positively sloped straight line passing through the origin?

(b) A horizontal line?

Explain market equilibrium.

Discuss the central problems of an economy.

What are the characteristics of a perfectly competitive market?

What is the total product of input?

From the schedule provided below calculate the total revenue, demand curve and the price elasticity of demand:

When do we say that there is an excess demand for a commodity in the market?

What do you mean by the production possibilities of an economy?

How are the total revenue of a firm, market price, and the quantity sold by the firm related to each other?

Explain the concepts of the short run and the long run. 

Explain how price is determined in a perfectly competitive market with a fixed number of firms.

Can you think of any commodity on which the price ceiling is imposed in India? What may be the consequence of price-ceiling?

Explain why the demand curve facing a firm under monopolistic competition is negatively sloped.

When does a production function satisfy constant returns to scale?

How does an increase in the price of an input affect the supply curve of a firm?

Briefly explain the concept of the cost function. 

What are the total fixed cost, total variable cost and total cost of a firm? How are they related?

What do the short-run marginal cost, average variable cost and short-run average cost curves look like? 

Can there be some fixed cost in the long run? If not, why?