Scenario: Yasmin and Zeek Are Lawyers Working at V, W

question 195

Multiple Choice

Scenario: Yasmin and Zeek are lawyers working at V, W, and X LLP. Yasmin works 48 hours a week, and Zeek also works 48 hours a week. They handle two types of cases, intellectual property (IP) cases and corporate fraud (CF) cases. It takes Yasmin 6 hours to handle each IP case and 4 hours to handle each CF case. Zeek can finish an IP case in 3 hours and a CF case in 6 hours.
-Refer to the scenario above.If you draw the production possibilities curves (PPCs) of the two lawyers where the number of IP cases handled is measured on the x-axis,then ________.

• A) Zeek's PPC lies above Yasmin's
• B) Zeek's PPC has the same slope as Yasmin's
• C) Zeek's PPC is flatter than Yasmin's
• D) Zeek's PPC is steeper than Yasmin's

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