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3. Alice's economics tutorial has been rescheduled from Tuesday afternoon to 8:30 Monday morning and she is not happy about it. Discuss how the concepts of compensating variation and equivalent variation could be used to quantify the effect of this timetabling change on Alice's welfare. a) Explain under what conditions compensating variation and equivalent variation are equal and under what conditions they are not equal.

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