8. For any society that values both buns and gutters, point B would be preferred to point E. The light green shaded area shows all the feasible points that would be preferred to point E. These represent bundles of the two goods that contain more of both goods, thus these points must be better than point E. As before, we can't claim that points A, C or D would be preferred to point E, but we can be certain about point B.

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