Let $I$ Be the Income of the Consumer $P _ { x }$

Multiple Choice

Let $I$ be the income of the consumer, $P _ { x }$ be the price of good $x$ and $P _ { y }$ be the price of good $y$ . If good $x$ is measured along the horizontal axis and good $y$ is measured along the vertical axis, then the " $x$ -intercept" measures the maximum amount of good $x$ that the consumer can afford, which can be expressed as which of the following?

A) $\frac { P _ { x } } { P _ { y } }$
B) $\frac { l } { P _ { y } }$
C) $\frac { I } { P _ { x } }$
D) $\frac { P _ { x } } { l }$