ENGR.ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
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When two individuals produce efficiently and then make a mutually
beneficial trade based on
a. they both obtain consumption outside their production possibilities
frontier.
b. they both obtain consumption inside their production possibilities
frontier.
c. one individual consumes inside her production possibilities frontier,
while the other consumes outside hers.
d. each individual consumes a point on her own production possibilities
frontier
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