Post on 20-Aug-2015
PPF and Opportunity cost questions
Maximum possible combinations of food and clothing that can be produced in a given period of time:
Units of food (millions) Units of clothing (millions)8.0 0.07.0 2.26.0 4.05.0 5.04.0 5.63.0 6.02.0 6.41.0 6.70.0 7.0
1. Draw a PPF for this economy.
2. What is the opportunity cost of moving from producing 4 million units of food to 5 million units of food? __________________________________________
3. What is the opportunity cost of moving from producing 6 million units of clothing to 7 million units of clothing? ________________________________
4. What is the opportunity cost of switching production from 0 units of food to 2 million units of food? _____________________________________________
5. What shape is the PPF curve in this example? Explain in your words why it is this shape. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
6. In what circumstances would the PPF be a straight line? ________________________________________________________________________________
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7. Could a PPF be bowed towards the origin? Explain your answer.__________________________________________________________________________
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