Economics 9708 · AS & A Level · Scarcity, choice and opportunity cost

Scarcity, choice and opportunity cost — practice question

Country X and country Y each devote half of their resources to producing shoes and half to producing t-shirts. With half of the resources in each case, the outputs are: X shoes 4000 t-shirts 12000; Y shoes 2000 t-shirts 8000. What can be concluded from the data?

  • AThe opportunity cost of country Y producing two shoes is four t-shirts.
  • BThe opportunity cost of country X producing one t-shirt is four shoes.
  • CThe total output of shoes and t-shirts after specialisation would be 24 000.
  • DThe total output of shoes and t-shirts after specialisation would be 28 000.

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