1. The output per laborer per day in the production of steel and tin for Russia and China are given in the table below. Output per Labor-Day RussiaChina Steel 10 3 5 6 Tin a) What is the opportunity cost of producing Tin in Russia? b) What is the opportunity cost of producing Tin in China? c) Assume that Russia has 500 labor days available for producing Steel and/or Tin and that China has 900 labor days available. Putting Steel on the vertical axis, draw the straight-line production possibility frontiers for both Russia and China. d) What is the slope of Russia's production possibility frontier, and what is the slope of China's production possibility frontier? e) How is the slope of a production possibility frontier related to the opportunity cost of the good on the horizontal axis? (See your answers to parts (a) and (b) of this question. 2. Two nations have straight-line production possibility frontiers, but with different slopes. Explain or demonstrate why complete specialization maximizes the gains from trade. CO LO
1. The output per laborer per day in the production of steel and tin for Russia and China are given in the table below. Output per Labor-Day RussiaChina Steel 10 3 5 6 Tin a) What is the opportunity cost of producing Tin in Russia? b) What is the opportunity cost of producing Tin in China? c) Assume that Russia has 500 labor days available for producing Steel and/or Tin and that China has 900 labor days available. Putting Steel on the vertical axis, draw the straight-line production possibility frontiers for both Russia and China. d) What is the slope of Russia's production possibility frontier, and what is the slope of China's production possibility frontier? e) How is the slope of a production possibility frontier related to the opportunity cost of the good on the horizontal axis? (See your answers to parts (a) and (b) of this question. 2. Two nations have straight-line production possibility frontiers, but with different slopes. Explain or demonstrate why complete specialization maximizes the gains from trade. CO LO
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![1. The output per laborer per day in the production of steel and tin for Russia and China are given in the table
below.
Output per Labor-Day
RussiaChina
Steel
10
3
5
6
Tin
a) What is the opportunity cost of producing Tin in Russia?
b) What is the opportunity cost of producing Tin in China?
c) Assume that Russia has 500 labor days available for producing Steel and/or Tin and that China has
900 labor days available. Putting Steel on the vertical axis, draw the straight-line production possibility
frontiers for both Russia and China.
d) What is the slope of Russia's production possibility frontier, and what is the slope of China's
production possibility frontier?
e) How is the slope of a production possibility frontier related to the opportunity cost of the good on the
horizontal axis? (See your answers to parts (a) and (b) of this question.
2. Two nations have straight-line production possibility frontiers, but with different slopes. Explain or
demonstrate why complete specialization maximizes the gains from trade.
CO
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Transcribed Image Text:1. The output per laborer per day in the production of steel and tin for Russia and China are given in the table
below.
Output per Labor-Day
RussiaChina
Steel
10
3
5
6
Tin
a) What is the opportunity cost of producing Tin in Russia?
b) What is the opportunity cost of producing Tin in China?
c) Assume that Russia has 500 labor days available for producing Steel and/or Tin and that China has
900 labor days available. Putting Steel on the vertical axis, draw the straight-line production possibility
frontiers for both Russia and China.
d) What is the slope of Russia's production possibility frontier, and what is the slope of China's
production possibility frontier?
e) How is the slope of a production possibility frontier related to the opportunity cost of the good on the
horizontal axis? (See your answers to parts (a) and (b) of this question.
2. Two nations have straight-line production possibility frontiers, but with different slopes. Explain or
demonstrate why complete specialization maximizes the gains from trade.
CO
LO
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