Because people are more willing to trade away goods that they have in abundance and less willing to trade away goods of which they have little, indifference curves are ___________

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word


bowed inward
strictly convex

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A) An explicit cost is an actual cost; an implicit cost is a theoretical cost. B) Economic costs include both explicit costs and implicit costs. C) An explicit cost is more important, dollar for dollar, than an implicit cost. D) Explicit costs are accounting costs, not economic costs; implicit costs are economic costs, not accounting costs.

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