Consumer Choice
* Consumers choose a combination of goods which will maximize satisfaction they can attain, given the some degree of budget available to them.
* The maximizing market basket should satisfy two conditions:
1) It should be located on budget line.
2) Should give consumer the most preferred combination of goods and services.
Keep in mind, the slope of an indifference curve is:
![1946_consumer choice.png](https://www.expertsmind.com/CMSImages/1946_consumer choice.png)
Furthermore, the slope of budget line is:
![2074_consumer choice1.png](https://www.expertsmind.com/CMSImages/2074_consumer choice1.png)
Thus, it can be said that satisfaction is maximized when:
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* Designing New Automobiles (II)
- Consider the two groups of consumers, each willing to spend $10,000 on the styling and performance of the cars.
- Each of the group is having different preferences.
- By finding the point of tangency between a group's indifference curve and budget constraint auto companies can design both production and marketing plan.
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