Question

A country produces only bananas and robots. If it produced only bananas with all its available resources, it could make 60 million units. If it produced only robots, it would produce 20 million units.
Graph the production possibilities curve for this country, assuming constant opportunity cost between the two goods—place bananas on the vertical axis and robots on the horizontal axis. Indicate a point on your graph, labeled A, that represents full employment and a possible combination in which both goods are being produced.

My Response: Understanding that every 15 million units of bananas equals 5 million units of Robots, now looking at my graph, you can see that the point labeled A means that at full employment, producing 50% of both goods gives you 30 million units of bananas and 10 million units of Robots.

What is this country's opportunity cost for producing a robot? Explain.
My Response: If we divide 60 Million / 20 Million = 3. So the opportunity cost for producing a robot is 3.

What would the area beyond (outside of) the country's PPC represent?
My Response: The area beyond the country’s PPC basically means the country is not able to produce in that area because it doesn't have the resources to do so. It's impossible or currently unattainable with the setup it has. Needs to improve “Factors of Production”

Assume that the country enters a recession. Label a point that could correspond to its output on your graph, labeling it B.
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Assume that a new fertilizer increases the efficiency of producing bananas. The productive capacity of robots is unaffected. Illustrate the impact of this change on your graph from part (a). Use an arrow to indicate the direction of the change.
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Another country with constant opportunity cost can produce 80 million units of bananas with all of its available resources or 10 million units of robots with all of its available resources. Calculate the opportunity cost for this country to produce 2 million units of robots.
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Answer 1

It should be noted that in the PPC, the downward sloping line 'ab' is the production possibility curve.

How to illustrate the information?

In the diagram, since point 'A' falls on the PPC itself, it represents the full employment of resources. Point 'A' represents the combination of 30 million bananas and 10 million robots.

Opportunity cost producing a robot = Total bananas possible / Total robots possible

Opportunity cost producing a robot =60/20

Opportunity cost producing a robot = 3 bananas

The area outside PPC represents the unattainable combinations of two goods.

During the recession, the resources are inefficiently used and the production combination is represented by point 'B' which falls below PPC When the production technology improves only for one good and not for the other, the PPC rotates

Marginal opportunity cost of a robot = 80 million bananas / 10 million robots

The marginal opportunity cost of a robot = 8 bananas

Opportunity cost of 2 million robots = 8 bananas × 2 million

The opportunity cost of 2 million robots will be 16 million bananas.

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