When she only sees 2 movies a month, if we take one away we need to compensate her with 2 restaurant meals. The rate at which we need to compensate her to keep her indifferent is commonly known as the Marginal Rate of Substitution (MRS). The slope of the indifference curve at any point is the MRS at that level of consumption.

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