Question

An indifference curve illustrates ... a) how consumers are indifferent about the location of their own consumption levels relative to their reference points. b) how consumers get more utility, the more they consume of any particular good. c) how a consumer might trade off different levels of consumption of each of two goods, while staying at the same utility level. d) the limitations on spending dictated by a consumer’s income and prices. e) B and D

Answer 1

Answer:

Option c) how a consumer might trade off different levels of consumption of each of two goods, while staying at the same utility level.

Explanation:

This is the very definition of an indifference curve. The points in an indifference curve are the combinations of the quantities (level of consumption) of two different goods which will produce the very same utility to the consumer. The consumer will perceive any of those combinations as having the same utility for him.  

For example, a usual graph of various indifference curves will look like the graph attached.

In this graph the combination of 2 pairs of shoes and 15 pants will be perceived as having the same utility as the combination of 5 pairs of shoes and 4 pants. Both are combinations in the same indifference curve, the green one, and the utility of any combination lying in that green curve will be rated the same: u = 1.