When a Country Has a Comparative Advantage in Producing a Certain

question 49

Multiple Choice

When a country has a comparative advantage in producing a certain good,

• A)the country should import that good.
• B)the country should produce just enough of that good for its own consumption.
• C)the country's opportunity cost of that good is high relative to other countries' opportunity costs of that same good.
• D)then specializing in the production of that good and trading for other goods could allow that country to consume at a point beyond its production possibilities frontier.

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Definitions:

Weekly Operating Profits

Weekly operating profits describe the earnings a business generates from its normal operations over a one-week period, excluding any income from investments or other non-operational sources.

Short Run

An interval in economic studies where a minimum of one production element remains constant and is unalterable.

Variable Costs

Expenses that change in proportion to the activity of a business.

Short Run

A time period in economics during which at least one input, such as plant size, is fixed and cannot be altered.