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- Macmillan Learning The accompanying graph shows the production possibilities frontier (PPF) for Rubberland. Rubberland only makes two products, rubber band balls and rubber hoses. The PPF shows the quantities of rubber band balls and rubber hoses Rubberland can produce in one day. Point A represents the combination of the two goods Rubberland currently produces. When a new method of rubber processing is discovered, the productivity of all Rubberland's inputs increases. Shift the PPF to show this change. Assume that Rubberland does not make more rubber band balls than it originally made at point A but still maximizes its output. Move point A to the new combination of the two goods. How many more rubber hoses does Rubberland now produce per day than before? Quantity of rubber band balls 200 180 160 140 120 100 Rubberland's Production Possibilities A 80 60 40 642 20 PPF 0 0 10 30 20 40 50 60 70 Quantity of rubber hoses 80 90 100 80 20 more hoses per dayarrow_forwardIf a family spends its entire budget in a given time frame, the family can afford either 95 cans of vegetables or 40 frozen dinners. Assuming the family spends its entire budget on just these two goods, what is the opportunity cost of a can of vegetables in the time frame?arrow_forwardThe graph to the right depicts an economy, Home, that produces both flowers and soybeans. Flowers are the labor intensive good and soybeans are the land intensive good. Home presently exports flowers. The graph also indicates Home's optimal point of production, X. Suppose that Home has acquired more land in which it can now produce 12 units of soybeans if all land were devoted toward its production. Using the three-point curved line drawing tool, draw the new production possibilities frontier that indicates this biased growth of land in Home. Properly label this curve. Carefully follow the instructions above and only draw the required object. The growth biased toward land causes OA. export-biased growth. O B. a decrease in the relative price of flowers. OC. a rightward shift of the relative supply curve. O D. import-biased growth. 16- 15- 14- 13- 12- 11- 10- 9- 7- 6- 5- Growth of a Factor Soybean output VV TT 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Flower output €arrow_forward
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