Educational supplies and equipment

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Lansing High School has $120,000 to spend on computers and other educational supplies and equipment.
The school's decision-makers have preferences that can be represented with a utility function U(X,C) = X^2C, where "C" represents expenditure on computers and X represents expenditure on other things.
A well-known, but unnamed, computer software company has announced it will give 50 cents to Lansing High School for every dollar it spends on computers.
This "matching grant" is open-ended--there is no maximum amount that the software company will donate. What will be Lansing's expenditure on computers, counting not only its own spending but the matching amount? (In other words, how many dollars' worth of computers will Lansing High School purchase?)
Question 9 options:

a) $46,666

b) More than $60,000

c) $60,000

d)$40,000

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Lansing High School has $120,000 to spend on computers and other educational supplies and equipment.
The school's decision-makers have preferences that can be represented with a utility function U(X,C) = X2C, where "C" represents expenditure on computers and X represents expenditure on other things.
A well-known, but unnamed, computer software company has announced it will give 50 cents to Lansing High School for every dollar it spends on computers.
This "matching grant" is limited--the most the high school can receive is $20,000.
What will be Lansing's expenditure on computers, counting not only its own spending but the matching amount? (In other words, how many dollars' worth of computers will Lansing High School purchase?)
Question 10 options:
a)$60,000

b)$46,666

c)$40,000

d) More than $60,000

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