You are a domestic wiz. You can clean three rooms in an hour and can iron 15 garments in another hour. Your partner, with his best efforts, in the same time can clean only 2 rooms or iron only 5 garments. If you follow the principle of comparative advantage, who should do which chores? Select one: a. Your partner should do both the cleaning and ironing. b. Your partner should do the cleaning and you do the ironing. c. You should do the cleaning and your partner the ironing. d. You should do both the cleaning and ironing.

You are a domestic wiz. You can clean three rooms in an hour and can iron 15 garments in another hour. Your partner, with his best efforts, in the same time can clean only 2 rooms or iron only 5 garments. If you follow the principle of comparative advantage, who should do which chores? Select one: a. Your partner should do both the cleaning and ironing. b. Your partner should do the cleaning and you do the ironing. c. You should do the cleaning and your partner the ironing. d. You should do both the cleaning and ironing.

Essentials of Economics (MindTap Course List)

8th Edition

ISBN:9781337091992

Author:N. Gregory Mankiw

Publisher:N. Gregory Mankiw

Chapter3: Interdependence And The Gains From Trade

Section3.2: Comparative Advantage: The Driving Force Of Specilization

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Select one:

a. Your partner should do both the cleaning and ironing.

b. Your partner should do the cleaning and you do the ironing.

c. You should do the cleaning and your partner the ironing.

d. You should do both the cleaning and ironing.

Definition Video Definition Ability of a country to produce goods and services at a lower opportunity cost compared to other countries. Here, opportunity cost refers to the forgone units of one good in order to produce one more unit of another good. For example, the opportunity cost of producing good X in country A is 2Y and in country B is 1.25Y. Country B has a lower opportunity cost of producing good X than country A. Therefore, country B has a comparative advantage in the production of good X. Video

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