Tom and Jerry Have One Day to Work, but Two

question 68

Multiple Choice

Tom and Jerry have one day to work, but two tasks to focus on: building chairs and tables. If Tom spends all day building chairs, he will make 16 chairs. If he instead devotes his day to building tables, Tom will make 4 tables. If Jerry spends his day building chairs, he will make 14 chairs; if he spends the day building tables, he will make 7 tables. Jerry has a comparative advantage at producing _____ because he has a _____ opportunity cost of making that good.

• A) chairs; lower
• B) chairs; higher
• C) tables; lower
• D) tables; higher

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Definitions:

Conditioned Stimulus

A neutral stimulus that, once linked with an unconditioned stimulus, ultimately evokes a conditioned response.

Meat Powder

A term possibly referring to powdered forms of meat used in experiments or as dietary supplements, although it is not a widely recognized scientific or nutritional term.

Unconditioned Stimulus

In classical conditioning, a stimulus that innately and automatically elicits a reaction without the need for previous learning.

Stimulus Generalisation

The tendency for the conditioned response to be evoked by stimuli that are similar to the stimulus that originally evoked the response.