If the Production Possibilities Curve Is a Straight Line, What

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Multiple Choice

If the production possibilities curve is a straight line, what does this illustrate?

• A) Resources are not equally substitutable between productions of the goods because there is an increase in opportunity cost.
• B) As an increasing quantity of resources is shifted from one manufacturing process to another, there is no increase in opportunity cost.
• C) Opportunity costs are negative.
• D) Opportunity costs increase as output of either commodity is expanded.

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