Production of Possibilities

The opportunity cost of increasing production from 7 to 9 trucks is

• Scarcity
• 2 boats
• 2 trucks
• 3 boats

The opportunity cost of increasing production from 4 to 7 boats is

• 1 boat
• 2 boats
• 2 trucks
• 3 trucks

If a natural disaster strikes, the production possibilities curve can shift

• No shift
• To the left
• To the right
• Outward on one axis only

What can cause a production possibilities curve to move to the right?

• thousands of people move out of the country
• an epidemic kills thousands of young men and women
• a new invention lowers the cost of production
• the population is growing increasingly old

What is the production possibilities curve?

• a graph that shows how much an economy can produce between 2 goods
• how much money something is
• the opportunity one has to give up in order to gain something else
• land, labor, capital, entrepreneurs

What does point Y represent on the PPC?

• Efficiency
• Unattainable / impossible
• Inefficency
• Nothing

If there is improved technique of Production in both the goods , how will the PPC be affected?

• Leftward shift of PPC

• Rightward shift of PPC

• Rotation of PPC

• None of the above

What is opportunity cost?

• a graph that shows how much an economy can produce between 2 goods
• how much money something is
• the opportunity one has to give up in order to gain something else
• land, labor, capital, entrepreneurs

The production possibilities curve is an illustration of what?

• Opportunity costs and trade-offs
• Only opportunity costs
• Only trade-offs
• none of the above

The production possibilities curve is an illustration of what?

• Opportunity costs and trade-offs
• Only opportunity costs
• Only trade-offs
• none of the above