In a Certain Country It Takes Five of Its 10

question 187

True/False

In a certain country it takes five of its 10 workers to produce one barrel of wine but only one worker to produce one yard of cloth. If we graphed this country's PPF (placing wine on the vertical axis and cloth on the horizontal axis), the slope of the PPF would equal -1/5.

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Definitions:

Large Intestine

The terminal part of the gastrointestinal tract, responsible for water absorption, and formation and excretion of feces.

Digestive System

The complex series of organs and glands responsible for the ingestion, digestion, and absorption of food and elimination of waste.

Trypsin

An enzyme produced in the pancreas that helps digest proteins in the small intestine.

Chymotrypsin

An enzyme located in the small intestine that digests proteins into smaller peptide fragments.