Table 3-7 Assume That Japan and Korea Can Switch Between Producing Cars

question 311

Multiple Choice

Table 3-7
Assume that Japan and Korea can switch between producing cars and producing airplanes at a constant rate.

-Refer to Table 3-7.We could use the information in the table to draw a production possibilities frontier for Japan and a second production possibilities frontier for Korea.If we were to do this,measuring cars along the horizontal axis,then

• A) the slope of Japan's production possibilities frontier would be -5 and the slope of Korea's production possibilities frontier would be -3.
• B) the slope of Japan's production possibilities frontier would be -0.2 and the slope of Korea's production possibilities frontier would be -0.33.
• C) the slope of Japan's production possibilities frontier would be 0.2 and the slope of Korea's production possibilities frontier would be 0.33.
• D) the slope of Japan's production possibilities frontier would be 5 and the slope of Korea's production possibilities frontier would be 3.

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