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ENGR.ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

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Chapter1: Making Economics Decisions

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Suppose County A and B produce only paper and cars. Country A can produce 8 tons of paper or 4 million cars yearly. Country B can produce 25 tons of paper or 5 million cars yearly.

Draw the production possibilities frontier for each country.

2. Both countries want 2 million cars each year and as much paper as they can produce along with 2 million cars. Find this point on each production possibilities frontier and label it “X1.”

3. Suppose the countries specialize. Which country will produce cars

4. Once they specialize, suppose they work out a trade of 2 million cars for 6 tons of paper. Find the new consumption point for each country and label it “X2.”

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Production possibilities frontier

The production possibility frontier (PPF) seems to be a slope on a diagram that depicts the potential output of two goods whose production is dependent on the same limited resource.
Another name for the PPF is indeed the production possibility curve.
A production possibility frontier (PPF), which depicts situations that are impractical given the available resources, is above the curve.
The PPF illustrates that an increase in one commodity's production can only occur when the output of another commodity falls.

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