Dominant Strategy in an Altruistic Payoff Graph
Two orchard managers, Mira and Omar, each choose between Water-Saving Irrigation (WSI) and High-Runoff Irrigation (HRI). The ordered pairs below show the monetary payoffs as (Mira's payoff, Omar's payoff): (WSI, WSI) = (5, 5), (HRI, WSI) = (6, 2), (WSI, HRI) = (3, 7), and (HRI, HRI) = (4, 4). Mira's indifference curves are also described textually: the lower curve L1 passes through (6, 2) and (4, 4), while the higher curve L2 passes through (5, 5) and (3, 7). Determine Mira's dominant strategy and explain the reasoning step by step.
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