ons: Enter your answers as whole numbers. s each country's cost ratio of producing plums and apples? Zealand's cost of producing 1 plum(s). apple(s) 's cost of producing 1 plum(s). apple(s) nation should specialize in which product? to select) the optimum product mixes before specialization and trade were alternative B in New Zeal would be the gains from specialization and trade? apple(s) and plum(s).
ons: Enter your answers as whole numbers. s each country's cost ratio of producing plums and apples? Zealand's cost of producing 1 plum(s). apple(s) 's cost of producing 1 plum(s). apple(s) nation should specialize in which product? to select) the optimum product mixes before specialization and trade were alternative B in New Zeal would be the gains from specialization and trade? apple(s) and plum(s).
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Transcribed Image Text:Referring to your graphs, answer the following:
Instructions: Enter your answers as whole numbers.
b. What is each country's cost ratio of producing plums and apples?
New Zealand's cost of producing 1 plum(s).
apple(s)
Spain's cost of producing 1 plum(s).
apple(s)
c. Which nation should specialize in which product?
(Click to select)
Suppose the optimum product mixes before specialization and trade were alternative B in New Zealand and alternative S in Spain.
d. What would be the gains from specialization and trade?
Gains
apple(s) and
plum(s).

Transcribed Image Text:The accompanying hypothetical production possibilities tables are for New Zealand and Spain. Each country can produce apples and
plums.
New Zealand's Production Possibilities Table
(Millions of Bushels)
Production Alternatives.
Product
A
B
с
D
Apples
0
20
40
60
Plums
15
10
5
0
Spain's Production Possibilities Table
(Millions of Bushels)
Production Alternatives
Product
R
S
T
U
Apples
0
20
40
60
Plums
60
40
20
0
a. Plot the production possibilities data for each of the two countries separately. Show the trading possibilities lines for each nation if
the actual terms of trade are 1 plum for 2 apples.
Instructions: (1) Use the tools provided, 'PPC NZ' and 'PPC SP, (plot 4 points each) to draw the PPC curves. (2) Use the
tool provided, 'TOT, in each diagram (plot 4 points each) to draw the trading possibilities lines for each nation. To earn full credit, you
must correctly plot all points for each line.
New Zealand
Spain
80
Tools
140
/
120
TOT
60
100
40
20
10 15 20 25
30
Plums (millions of bushels)
Apples (millions of bushels)
0
5
35
40
/
PPC NZ
Apples (millons of bushels)
80
60
40
20
0
10
20 30 40 50 60
Plums (millions of bushels)
70 80
Tools
/
PPC SP
/
ToT
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