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

question 33

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.The opportunity cost in the United States of producing 60 units of petroleum is _______ units of machinery.

• A) 60
• B) 80
• C) 100
• D) 120

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