Answer:
a. For each country, graph the production possibilities frontier. Suppose that without trade the workers in each country spend half their time producing each good. Identify this point in your graphs.
b. Who has the comparative advantage in the production of shirts? What about for computers?
- China has the comparative advantage in the production of shirts, while the US has the comparative advantage in the production of computers.
c. If these countries were open to trade, which country would export shirts? Give a specific numerical example and show it on your graphs. Which country would benefit from trade?
- China would export 50 million shirts in exchange for 5 million computers (or more if they can). Trade would benefit the US since it will only need to trade 5 million computers in exchange for 50 million shirts, and it will still have 15 million computers that it can consume or trade with come other country.
d. Explain at what price of computers (in terms of shirts) the two countries might trade.
- the minimum and maximum prices would be 5 to 10 shirts per computer. If the price of shirts per computer is 10 or near 10, then the US wins more. If the price of shirts per computer is 5 or near 5, then China wins more.
Explanation:
opportunity cost of producing 1 shirt in the US = 20/100 = 0.2 computers
opportunity cost of producing 1 computer in the US = 100/20 = 5 shirts
opportunity cost of producing 1 shirt in China = 10/100 = 0.1 computers
opportunity cost of producing 1 computer in China = 100/10 = 10 shirts
without trade:
- total production of shirts in the US = 50 million
- total production of computer in the US = 10 million
- total production of shirts in China = 50 million
- total production of computer in China = 5 million
with trade:
- total production of computers in the US = 20 million
- total production of shirts in China = 100 million
Answer:
Total value added to the GDP is $500,000.
Explanation:
Given that,
Automobile factory uses parts that are purchased from foreign countries = $100,000
Total cars produce = 30
Price of each car = $20,000
Total cars sold = 20
Left in inventory = 10
Therefore,
Addition to GDP:
= Total value of car produced - Imports(parts purchased from foreign countries)
= (Selling price of each car × Total cars produced) - $100,000
= ($20,000 × 30) - $100,000
= $600,000 - $100,000
= $500,000
Hence, total value added to the GDP is $500,000.
Answer:
The percentage rate of growth from 2010 to 2011 is the 1237.3%
Explanation:
The percentage rate or growth for online advertising spend in 2011 compared to 2010 is obtained when calculating the following operations:
1. You must know what is the base figure you want to use to determine the percentage growth. In this case $5.9 Billion is the base figure you will use.
2. You want to know what is the figure with which you will determine the final growth. In this case is $73 billion.
3. You replace the values in the following formula:
percentage rate or growth =(( <u> Final growth figure </u> ) ) x 100
Base figure
percentage rate or growth =(( <u> 73 </u> ) ) x 100
5.9
percentage rate or growth = 12.3728 x 100
percentage rate or growth = 1237.28
4. As you want to round your answer to one percentage place, then you round to .28 to .3 that is the next higher decimal number.
percentage rate or growth = 1237.3%
As a result of the demand increasing only slightly compared to the reduction in price, the demand must be <u>inelastic</u>.
<h3>Why is the demand inelastic?</h3><h3 />
The demand is considered to be inelastic if the price elasticity is less than 1.
The price elasticity is:
= (%Change in quantity/% Change in price)
Solving gives:
= 15 / 200 ÷ 0.50 / 3.50
= -0.525
In conclusion, the demand for the shakes is inelastic.
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