Devon’s Total Production Of Milk
Devon’s total production of milk | Devon’s total production of ice cream | Ravi’s total production of milk | Ravi’s total production of ice cream | |
Devote all time to producing
Milk |
80 pints of milk | 0 pints of ice cream | 175 pints of milk | 0 pints of ice cream |
Devote all time to producing ice cream | 0 pints of milk | 20 pints of ice cream | 0 pints of milk | 25 pints of ice cream |
Note: Assume that both Devon and Ravi can produce any corresponding linear combination of milk and ice cream.
Consider Devon’s production of milk and ice cream
- What is Devon’s opportunity cost of producing a pint of ice cream?
- What is Devon’s opportunity cost of producing a pint of milk?
- What is Ravi’ opportunity cost of producing a pint of ice cream?
- What is Ravi’ opportunity cost of producing a pint of milk?
- Who has the absolute advantage in the production of milk?
- Who has the absolute advantage in the production of ice cream?
- Who has the comparative advantage in the production of milk?
- Who has the comparative advantage in the production of ice cream? (Please provide a brief explanation.)
- If both want to consume a strictly positive amount of both milk and ice cream: Who will trade milk for ice cream? (i.e. Who will give up milk in exchange for ice cream?)
- If both want to consume a strictly positive amount of both milk and ice cream: Who will trade ice cream for milk? (i.e. Who will give up ice cream in exchange for milk?)
- How much milk and ice cream will be produced if both Ravi and Devon completely specialize in the production of the product in which he has a comparative advantage?