If leisure is drawn on the horizontal axis and labor is drawn on the vertical axis, then a person who attaches more importance to leisure than to labor will have indifference curves that:

A. tend to be steeper.

B. tend to be flatter.

C. will be positively-sloped.

D. will be L-shaped.


B. tend to be flatter.

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