Answer:
a. Which country has the absolute advantage in producing dates?
Mali
b. Which country has the absolute advantage in producing grain?
None
c. Which country has the competitive advantage in producing dates?
Mali
d. Which country has the comparative advantage in producing grain?
Ireland
Explanation:
Opportunity cost of producing dates:
Ireland = 10 / 5 = 2 tons of grains
Mali = 10 / 25 = 0.4 tons of grains
Opportunity cost of producing grains:
Ireland = 5 / 10 = 0.5 tons of dates
Mali = 25 / 10 = 2.5 tons of dates
Sally works for Timber Products, Inc. The basis for her contribution under the Federal Insurance Contribution Act to help pay for benefits that will partially make up for her loss of income on retirement is her annual wage base.
Answer: Option B
<u>Explanation:</u>
The contribution that Sally, who is working for Timber Products incorporation, has to make for federal insurance contribution act is based on the amount of wage that Sally gets on an annual basis or the wage that she gets in a year.
A part of that wage which is a particular percentage is paid to the federal insurance contribution act who is going to benefit her in case she incurs any kind of loss of income.
Answer:
D. Price will rise, quantity purchased will fall, and gross revenues will fall.
Explanation:
It will lead to a higher price of the good as the management has to take into consideration the amount to wages to be paid to the workers, thus increasing the price of the goods. This will result to a lower demand at a higher price because the price increases and competitions will take advantage of the situation and that will also reduce the revenue of the firm.
Answer: d. Uncle John's
Absolute Advantage refers to the ability of an individual, company, region or country to produce a particular product or service at a price lower than that of his or her or its competitors.
When the price for the company's products are lower in comparison to other similar products, the demand for its products are more and it's able to sell more number of units than its competitors.
In this case, Uncle John's has the absolute advantage since it sold the most number of cookies (125)
Foreign saving is used for domestic investment when
foreigners engage in either foreign direct investment or foreign portfolio
investment.
<span>To add, ‘Foreign savings’ and the ‘net external
resources inflows’ are the two popular acronyms used for the current account
deficit in the balance of payments.</span>
