{“appState”:{“pageLoadApiCallsStatus”:true},”articleState”:{“article”:{“headers”:{“creationTime”:”2016-03-26T07:07:56+00:00″,”modifiedTime”:”2016-03-26T07:07:56+00:00″,”timestamp”:”2022-09-14T17:44:31+00:00″},”data”:{“breadcrumbs”:[{“name”:”Business, Careers, & Money”,”_links”:{“self”:”https://dummies-api.dummies.com/v2/categories/34224″},”slug”:”business-careers-money”,”categoryId”:34224},{“name”:”Business”,”_links”:{“self”:”https://dummies-api.dummies.com/v2/categories/34225″},”slug”:”business”,”categoryId”:34225},{“name”:”Economics”,”_links”:{“self”:”https://dummies-api.dummies.com/v2/categories/34238″},”slug”:”economics”,”categoryId”:34238}],”title”:”How to Draw a Utility Function”,”strippedTitle”:”how to draw a utility function”,”slug”:”how-to-draw-a-utility-function”,”canonicalUrl”:””,”seo”:{“metaDescription”:”Suppose that you want to compare bundles that are on different levels of utility. Easy! You draw a set of indifference curves moving away from the origin. 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The following figure shows this, where the new line goes from the origin through the indifference curves.</p>\n<div class=\”imageBlock\” style=\”width:453px;\”><img src=\”https://www.dummies.com/wp-content/uploads/504243.image1.jpg\” height=\”400\” alt=\”Bob gets more utility each time he moves to a higher indifference curve.\” width=\”453\”/><div class=\”imageCaption\”>Bob gets more utility each time he moves to a higher indifference curve.</div></div>\n<p>But, you may ask, what if all those points are different combinations of goods? After all, imagine that you’ve shown that for indifference curve 1, Bob will be indifferent between the bundle of three cups of tea and four cups of coffee and the bundle of five cups of tea and two cups of coffee, but prefers the bundle on indifference curve 2 of six cups of tea and two cups of coffee. 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