The Figure Depicts a Shift in a Society's Production Possibilities

question 123

Multiple Choice

The figure depicts a shift in a society's production possibilities frontier (PPF) for the manufacture of trains and planes: train-manufacturing capacity expands while plane-manufacturing capacity shrinks. Refer to this figure to answer the following questions.

-Which point represents an output that was efficient before the shift but is inefficient afterward?

• A) point A
• B) point B
• C) point C
• D) point D
• E) point E

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Mortality Rate

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Homicide

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