Kenji and Lucia are farmers. Each one owns a 20-acre plot of land. The following produce per year on a given acre. Each farmer chooses whether to devote all acre land and barley on the rest. Alfalfa Barley (Bushels per acre) (Bushels per acre) Kenji 40 8
Kenji and Lucia are farmers. Each one owns a 20-acre plot of land. The following produce per year on a given acre. Each farmer chooses whether to devote all acre land and barley on the rest. Alfalfa Barley (Bushels per acre) (Bushels per acre) Kenji 40 8
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_Lucia or Kenji________ has an absolute advantage in the production of alfalfa, and ___Lucia or Kenji____ has an absolute advantage in the production of barley.
Kenji's opportunity cost of producing 1 bushel of barley is _______bushels of alfalfa, whereas Lucia's opportunity cost of producing 1 bushel of barley is___________bushels of alfalfa. Because Kenji has a _________ opportunity cost of producing barley than Lucia, ________ has a comparative advantage in the production of barley, and ________ has a comparative advantage in the production of alfalfa.

Transcribed Image Text:Kenji and Lucia 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.
Alfalfa
Barley
(Bushels per acre)
(Bushels per acre)
Kenji
40
8.
Lucia
28
7
On the following graph, use the blue line (circle symbol) to plot Kenji's production possibilities frontier (PPF), and use the purple line (diamond
symbol) to plot Lucia's PPF.
200
O
180
Kenji's PPF
160
140
120
Lucia's PPF
100
80
60
40
20
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
900 1000
ALFALFA (Bushels)
BARLEY (Bushels)
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