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Suppose that you must decide how much to work. Using the idea that the labor supply decision results from a trade-off between leisure and income, answer the following questions. 1. Define the problem that you must solve to figure out the optimal amount of leisure and hours worked. 2. Derive the first-order condition for your optimal decision. 3. Show why the labor supply curve slopes upward with respect to the real wage. 4. Suppose that the real wage falls from w1 to w0. Depict how the substitution effect and income effect influence your decision on leisure and hours worked.