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1. Scarcity implies that the allocation decision chosen by society can
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a) not make more of any one good. ss ss ss ss ss ss


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Explanation: Scarcity implies that choices involve trade-
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2. A production possibilities frontier is a simple model of
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a) price and production/consumption in a market.
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c) the number of inputs required to produce varying levels of output.
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s sExplanation: The production possibilities frontier shows the quantity of two goods
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ss that can be produced. It implies that scarcity requires that choices be made as to
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ss how to use resources.
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3. The underlying reason that there are unattainable points on a production
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possibilities frontier is that there
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Explanation: The points outside the production possibilities frontier are unattainable.
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This means that currently available resources and technology are insufficient to
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produce amounts greater than those illustrated on the frontier. On a graph, everything
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beyond the frontier is unattainable.
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4. The underlying reason production possibilities frontiers are likely to be bowed
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out (rather than linear) is because
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rather than another.
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from the origin, then opportunity cost is increasing. The reason for this is that as we
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add more resources to the production of, for example, pizza, we are using fewer
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resources to produce soda. Compounding that problem, at each stage as we take the
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resources away from soda and put them into pizza, we are moving workers who are
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worse at pizza production and better at soda production than those moved in the
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previous stage. This means that the increase in pizza production is diminishing and the
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loss in soda production is increasing. An economist would call this an example of
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increasing opportunity cost. If the production possibilities frontier is a straight line
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that is not bowed out away from the origin, then opportunity cost is constant.
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