Question

Consider two neighboring island countries called Euphoria and Contente. They each have 4 million labor hours available per week that they can use to produce rye, jeans, or a combination of both. The following table shows the amount of rye or jeans that can be produced using 1 hour of labor.Country Rye Jeans(Bushels per hour of labor)(Pairs per hour of labor)Euphoria 5 20Contente 8 16 Initially, suppose Contente uses 1 million hours of labor per week to produce rye and 3 million hours per week to produce jeans, while Euphoria uses 3 million hours of labor per week to produce rye and 1 million hours per week to produce jeans. Consequently, Euphoria produces 15 million bushels of rye and 20 million pairs of jeans, and Contente produces 8 million bushels of rye and 48 million pairs of jeans. Assume there are no other countries willing to trade goods, so, in the absence of trade between these two countries, each country consumes the amount of rye and jeans it produces.Euphoria's opportunity cost of producing 1 bushel of rye is ________ of jeans, and Contente's opportunity cost of producing 1 bushel of rye is ____________ of jeans. Therefore, __________ has a comparative advantage in the production of rye, and___________ has a comparative advantage in the production of jeans.Suppose that each country completely specializes in the production of the good in which it has a comparative advantage, producing only that good. In this case, the country that produces rye will produce ________million bushels per week, and the country that produces jeans will produce_________million pairs per week.

Answer 1

Explanation:

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For Euphoria:

The opportunity cost of producing a unit of rye in terms of jeans =20/5 = 4

for contente:

The opportunity cost of producing a unit of rye in terms of jeans = 16/8 = 2

opportunity cost of producing 1 unit of jean in terms of unit of rye:

for euphoria = 5/20 = 1/4

for contente = 8/16 = 1/2

1.

Euphoria's opportunity cost of producing a a bushel of rye is 4 pairs of jeans.

contentes opportunity cost of producing a bushel of rye is 2 pairs of jeans.

2.

contente has comparative advantage in producing rye

euphoria has comparative advantage in jeans production

3

contente produces 8 bushels of rye so with 4 million hours of labor = 8x4 = 32 million bushels in a week.

euphoria 20 pairs of jean in a week, using 4 million hours of labor. 20x4 = 80 pairs of jean a week