Refer to the Information Provided in Scenario 1 Below to Answer

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Essay

Refer to the information provided in Scenario 1 below to answer the following questions.
SCENARIO 1: Consider the following data for the harvest of crabs versus the harvest of fish off the coast of Virginia in answering the following questions.

-Refer to Scenario 1. Graph the production possibilities frontier and calculate the average opportunity cost of any of the first fifteen crabs produced.
The opportunity cost of the first fifteen crabs is of course the 10 fish given up (15C = 10F). Therefore, the opportunity cost of any one crab is 10/15 F or 2/3 of a fish.

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