So far we've been using a specific example to illustrate budget constraints. It is often useful, if more difficult, to think in more general terms. Let's be as general as we can be by considering a consumer who consumes only two goods, X and Y. We can represent her income by the letter I, and the price of the two goods consumed by PX and PY.

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