2. 200 C Cars 100 B A 600 1,000 Washing Machines B. There is going to be one less washing machine that could be produced in this
situation since there is an additional car that is going to be produced. Movements down the curve show that the opportunity cost of more capital goods is fewer consumer goods.
C. Your cost is losing more washing machines, but you will have more consumer goods than in question B.
D. The cost of producing an additional washing machine when 50 cars are being produced is that you increase capital production, but reduce consumer goods. Increasing capital reduces consumer goods only a little when 150 cars are being produced.
E. The answers show me that opportunity cost is something to be taken into consideration when making choices especially business choices. It focuses on to make the best alternative for an individual.
3. The opportunity cost of going to Florida is $1,000.
4.
A. The opportunity cost of producing a unit of wheat in the United Kingdom is 1.
The opportunity cost of producing a unit of wheat in the United States is -1. B. The United States has an absolute advantage in both wheat and cloth.
C.
D. The United States should specialize in producing wheat and the United Kingdom should specialize in producing cloth.