Absolute Advantage
Comparative Advantage
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If Japan produces 100 apples and 200 oranges. And the US produces 400 apples and 200 oranges. This country has the absolute advantage for apples.

What is the US?

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Austria can produce 3 units of steel in 1 hour and 8 brooms in 1 hour. Belgium can produce 8 units of steel in 1 hour and 1 broom in 1 hour. Who has the comparative advantage in brooms?

Belgium

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True or false: opportunity cost helps country figure out what to trade. 

True

200

Vietnam can produce 1 unit of beef in 8 hours. England can produce 1 unit of beef in 10 hours. What country has the absolute advantage?

Vietnam

200

Australia can make 300 sleds and 2 clarinets in 1 hour. Brazil can make 200 sleds and 1 clarinet. What country has the comparative advantage?

Brazil

200
True or false: specialization gives countries reasons to trade

True

300

China can produce 1 t-shirt in 1 hour and 1 flag in 2 hours. South Korea can produce 1 t-shirt in 3 hours and 1 flags in 6 hours. What country has the absolute advantage in t-shirts? What country has absolute advantage in flags? 

Shirt- China

Flag- China

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The definition of comparative advantage

the ability of a group to produce a good more efficiently than any other country. 

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True or false: trade is a factor that leads to economic growth

False

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