Imagine a budget line depicting a consumer's possible allocation of a given income between fruit and vegetables. If the consumer's income increases at the same time the price of vegetables rises, the budget line's intercept with the

a. fruit axis will be unaffected
b. fruit axis will move toward the origin
c. vegetable axis will be unaffected
d. fruit axis will move toward the origin
e. vegetable axis might remain unchanged, move toward the origin, or move away from the origin


E

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