What do you mean by 'monotonic preferences'?

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Consumer's preferences are called monotonic when between two bundles {say (10, 9) and (9, 9)}, one bundle has more of at least one of the goods and no less of the other, the consumer prefers bundles (10, 9) to bundles (9, 9).

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