10. The following table describes the number of yards of cloth and barrels of wine that can be produced with a week's worth of labor in England and Portugal. Assume that no other inputs are needed. a. Cloth Wine England? b. Portugal? England 8 yards 2 barrels If there is no trade, what is the price (opportunity cost) of wine and cloth in Portugal 12 yards 6 barrels If there is no trade, what is the price (opportunity cost) of wine and cloth in C. Suppose each country has 1 million weeks of labor available per year. Draw the production possibilities frontier for each country with wine on the horizontal axis and cloth on the vertical axis (label them). Indicate the Marginal Rate of Transformation (MRT).

10. The following table describes the number of yards of cloth and barrels of wine that can be produced with a week's worth of labor in England and Portugal. Assume that no other inputs are needed. a. Cloth Wine England? b. Portugal? England 8 yards 2 barrels If there is no trade, what is the price (opportunity cost) of wine and cloth in Portugal 12 yards 6 barrels If there is no trade, what is the price (opportunity cost) of wine and cloth in C. Suppose each country has 1 million weeks of labor available per year. Draw the production possibilities frontier for each country with wine on the horizontal axis and cloth on the vertical axis (label them). Indicate the Marginal Rate of Transformation (MRT).

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Chapter1: Making Economics Decisions

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