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- Consider two individuals, Fred and Barney. In one hour, Fred can produceeither 15 gallons of beer, or 3 gallons of wine. In one hour, Barney can produce2 gallons of beer or 4 gallons of wine. Assume both goods can be produced incontinuous quantities. Assume that each person wants to consume 3 gallons of wine, then as muchbeer as they can. Determine what each person will end up consumingi) when they cannot trade.ii) when they can trade at a price of 1gallon wine = 2 gallons beer.Use this to explain why trade benefits both consumers.2. Comparative and absolute advantage Larry and Megan are farmers. Each one owns a 20-acre plot of land. The following table shows the amount of corn and rye each farmer can produce per year on a given acre. Each farmer chooses whether to devote all acres to producing corn or rye or to produce corn on some of the land and rye on the rest. Corn Rye (Bushels per acre) (Bushels per acre) Larry 40 8 Megan 28 7 On the following graph, use the blue line (circle symbol) to plot Larry's production possibilities frontier (PPF), and use the purple line (diamond symbol) to plot Megan's PPF. (?) 200 180 160 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 has an absolute advantage in the production of rye. bushels of corn, whereas Megan's opportunity cost of producing 1 bushel of rye is opportunity cost of producing rye than Megan, has a comparative has a comparative advantage in the production of corn. RYE (Bushels) 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 CORN (Bushels) has an absolute advantage in the production of…Would you rather have efficiency or variety? That is, one opportunity cost of the variety of products we have is that each product costs more per unit than if there were only one kind of product of a given type, like shoes. Perhaps a better question is, “What is the right amount of variety? Can there be too many varieties of shoes, for example?” the bold question i dont understadnwhat they are trying to ask me to do