Question : Table 2-14 One Motorcycle One Guitar : 1387328

 

Table 2-14

 

 

One Motorcycle

One Guitar

Ireland

20 hours

4 hours

Scotland

  8 hours

2 hours

 

Table 2-14 shows the number of labor hours required to produce a motorcycle and a guitar in Ireland and Scotland.

 

 

67) Refer to Table 2-14.  If the two countries specialize and trade, who should export motorcycles?

A) There is no basis for trade between the two countries.

B) Ireland

C) Scotland

D) They should both be importing motorcycles.

 

68) As women’s wages have risen relative to men’s wages, the opportunity cost to women of doing housework has ________ than has the opportunity cost to men.

A) increased less

B) increased more

C) decreased more

D) decreased less

 

 

69) If you can produce more of something than others with the same resources, you have

A) a comparative advantage.

B) an absolute advantage.

C) an efficient production system.

D) a free-market economy.

 

 

Table 2-15

 

 

George

Jack

Lawns Mowed

10

6

Gardens Cultivated

5

4

 

Table 2-15 shows the output per day of two gardeners, George and Jack. They can either devote their time to mowing lawns or cultivating gardens.

 

70) Refer to Table 2-15.  Which of the following statements is true?

A) Jack has an absolute advantage in both tasks.

B) George has an absolute advantage in both tasks.

C) Jack has an absolute advantage in lawn mowing and George in garden cultivating.

D) Jack has an absolute advantage in garden cultivating and George in lawn mowing.

 

71) Refer to Table 2-15.  What is Jack’s opportunity cost of mowing a lawn?

A) half a garden cultivated

B) two lawns mowed

C) two-thirds of a garden cultivated

D) one and a half lawns mowed

 

 

72) Refer to Table 2-15.  What is Jack’s opportunity cost of cultivating a garden?

A) half a garden cultivated

B) two lawns mowed

C) two-thirds of a garden cultivated.

D) one and a half lawns mowed

 

 

73) Refer to Table 2-15.  What is George’s opportunity cost of mowing a lawn?

A) half a garden cultivated

B) two lawns mowed

C) two-thirds of a garden cultivated.

D) one and a half lawns mowed

 

 

74) Refer to Table 2-15.  What is George’s opportunity cost of cultivating a garden?

A) half a garden cultivated

B) two lawns mowed

C) two-thirds of a garden cultivated

D) one and a half lawns mowed

 

75) Refer to Table 2-15.  Which of the following statements is true?

A) Jack has a comparative advantage in both tasks.

B) George has a comparative advantage in both tasks.

C) Jack has a comparative advantage in lawn mowing and George in garden cultivating.

D) Jack has a comparative advantage in garden cultivating and George in lawn mowing.

 

 

76) Comparative advantage means

A) the ability to produce more of a product with the same amount of resources than any other producer.

B) the ability to produce a good or service at a lower opportunity cost than any other producer.

C) the ability to produce a good or service at a higher opportunity cost than any other producer.

D) compared to others, you are better at producing a product.

 

 

77) Specializing in the production of a good or service in which one has a comparative advantage enables a country to do which of the following?

A) never have to engage in trade with other nations

B) increase the variety of products that it can produce with a decrease in resources

C) consume a combination of goods that lies outside its own production possibilities frontier

D) produce a combination of goods that lies outside its own production possibilities frontier

 

78) For each watch that Switzerland produces, it gives up the opportunity to make 50 pounds of chocolate. Germany can produce 1 watch for every 100 pounds of chocolate it produces. Which of the following is true about the comparative advantage between the two countries?

A) Switzerland has the comparative advantage in chocolate.

B) Switzerland has the comparative advantage in watches.

C) Germany has the comparative advantage in watches and chocolate.

D) Germany has the comparative advantage in watches.

 

 

 

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