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11) The table above gives four production possibilities for airplanes : 1238365
11) The table above gives four production possibilities for airplanes and cruise ships. In possibility A, how many resources are devoted to the production of airplanes?
A) 0
B) few
C) most
D) all
E) It is impossible to tell without more information about the prices of airplanes and cruise ships.
12) The table above gives four production possibilities for airplanes and cruise ships. In possibility A, how many resources are devoted to the production of cruise ships?
A) 0
B) few
C) most
D) all
E) It is impossible to tell without more information about the prices of airplanes and cruise ships.
13) Moving from one point to another on a production possibilities frontier implies
A) increasing the production of both goods.
B) decreasing the production of both goods.
C) increasing the production of one good and decreasing the production of another.
D) holding the production levels of both goods constant.
E) changing the amount of factors of production that are employed.
14) Assume that an association of young workers has lobbied Congress to require that all workers retire once they reach the age of fifty. What impact would this law have on the nation’s production possibilities frontier?
A) no impact at all
B) The level of unemployment would decrease so the production possibilities frontier would shift outward.
C) The nation would move to a new position on its production possibilities frontier but the frontier itself would not shift.
D) The production possibilities frontier would shift inward.
E) The number of young workers would increase so the production possibilities frontier would shift outward.
15) A major earthquake occurs in the central part of the United States. What impact would this have on the nation’s production possibilities frontier and why?
A) It would shift outward because unemployment would be reduced.
B) Nothing would happen because the nation would still have the same capabilities.
C) A tradeoff would occur to replace the resources and goods destroyed.
D) It would shift inward because some of the nation’s resources, such as capital and labor, would be destroyed.
E) It would not shift because people would get to work to replace any capital that was destroyed.
16) When all of the available factors of production are being efficiently employed, the
A) economy is producing at a point within its PPF.
B) economy is producing at a point on its PPF.
C) economy is producing at a point beyond its PPF.
D) PPF disappears.
E) opportunity cost of changing production is infinite.
17) In a production possibilities frontier diagram, the attainable production points are shown as
A) only the points on the production possibilities frontier.
B) only the points beyond the production possibilities frontier.
C) only the points inside the production possibilities frontier.
D) the points inside and the points on the production possibilities frontier.
E) any of the production points.
18) In the production possibilities frontier model, an unattainable point lies
A) only on the production possibilities frontier itself.
B) only inside the production possibilities frontier.
C) only outside the production possibilities frontier.
D) both on and outside the production possibilities frontier.
E) There are no unattainable points in the production possibilities model.
19) Production efficiency is represented by ________ a production possibilities frontier.
A) all points on
B) all points inside
C) all points outside
D) a movement along
E) only one point on
20) If an economy cannot produce more of one good without producing less of another good, this implies that which of the following has been achieved?
A) allocative efficiency
B) minimum marginal cost
C) PPF efficiency
D) production efficiency
E) maximum marginal benefit
