Question

Assume the United States can use a given amount of its resources to produce either 20 airplanes or 8 automobiles and Japan can employ the same amount of its resources to produce either 20 airplanes or 10 automobiles. The U.S. should specialize in:
both goods.
neither goods.
automobiles.
airplanes.

Answer 1

Assume the United States can use a given amount of its resources to produce either 20 airplanes or 8 automobiles and Japan can employ the same amount of its resources to produce either 20 airplanes or 10 automobiles. The U.S. should specialize in airplanes.

Answer: Option D

Explanation:

The resources which are used to produce goods are available in limited amount in the economy. But these resources can be used for alternative purposes and producing various goods. So the producers should focus on the optimum utilization of the resources.

The United States of America can produce 20 airplanes with that amount of the resources, so it should specialist in producing air planes and not on the production of the auto mobiles. Because it can produce only 8 automobiles.