2. Introductory Economic Models
PPF - Increasing Marginal Opportunity Costs and Allocative Efficiency
- Scelta multiplaIn the context of the production possibilities frontier (PPF), what does 'increasing marginal opportunity costs' mean?168views
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Your bakery has workers who are cookie specialists and cake specialists. After a busy weekend, your bakery is short on cookies, and you need to rebuild your cookie inventory. To do this, you decide to shift workers away from cake production and into cookie production.
As you reassign each worker, you track how many cakes you give up and how many trays of cookies you gain:
What is the marginal opportunity cost of increasing cookie production from 10 trays to 20 trays?
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- Scelta multiplaIncreasing marginal opportunity cost implies that:160views
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- Scelta multiplaWhich of the following best describes increasing marginal opportunity costs as illustrated by a bowed-out production possibilities frontier (PPF)?133views
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Chuggy wants to earn a high grade in his microeconomics class, but also loves going to parties and binge drinking. The first graph illustrates Chuggy's PPF. The second graph denotes his MB curve from binge drinking.
What is Chuggy's marginal cost of binge drinking if he parties for three hours a week?
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If Chuggy achieves allocative efficiency, how many hours does he spend binge drinking per week?
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What is Chuggy's economics grade when he achieves allocative efficiency?
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A smoothie shop uses workers and blenders to produce strawberry smoothies and mango smoothies. Production data is collected showing how many mango smoothies must be given up to make more strawberry smoothies.
What is the marginal opportunity cost of increasing production from Point B to Point C?
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