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Tim and Alyssa are farmers. Each one owns a 20-acre plot of land. The following table shows the amount of alfalfa and barley each farmer can produce per year on a given acre. Each farmer chooses whether to devote all acres to producing alfalfa or barley or to produce alfalfa on some of the land and barley on the rest.
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Alfalfa
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Barley
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(Bushels per acre)
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(Bushels per acre)
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Tim | 20 | 4 |
Alyssa | 28 | 7 |
On the following graph, use the blue line (circle symbol) to plot Tim's production possibilities frontier (PPF ), and use the purple line (diamond symbol) to plot Alyssa's PPF.
______ has an absolute advantage in the production of alfalfa, and_____ has an absolute advantage in the production of barley.
Tim's opportunity cost of producing 1 bushel of barley is______ bushels of alfalfa, whereas Alyssa's opportunity cost of producing 1 bushel of barley is_____bushels of alfalfa. Because Tim has a _____ opportunity cost of producing barley than Alyssa, ____ has a comparative advantage in the production of barley, and ____ has a comparative advantage in the production of alfalfa.
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