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Question
What do you mean by monotonic preferences?
Solution
It means that the consumer prefers a particular bundle over the other bundle if the former consists of at least more of one good and no less of the other good.
Example:
If bundle A(3, 5) and bundle B(3, 2) are available to the consumer, then he/she will prefer bundle A over bundle B as bundle A consists of more units of good 2 than bundle B.
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