Use the Following to Answer Question(s): Production Possibilities for Machinery

question 175

Multiple Choice

Use the following to answer question(s) : Production Possibilities for Machinery and Petroleum

-(Exhibit: Production Possibilities for Machinery and Petroleum) Assuming constant costs in the neighborhood of their current levels of production, the exhibit shows the number of units of machinery each country would have to forgo in order to produce the additional petroleum indicated.A terms-of-trade equation that could emerge as a result of trade between the two countries is:

• A) 1M = 5P.
• B) 1M = 4P.
• C) 1M = 1P.
• D) 1M = 0.2P.

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