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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