Chapter 4 Tutorial Questions
Use the following information for Country A (closed developing economy) to answer the questions
below
Description
Price of Bluetooth speakers
Price of Apples
3 factors of production
Labour Mobile factor
Capital Mainly used in the production of electronics
Land Mainly used in Agricultural production
Pb/Pa 4
1) Draw the production possibility curve for Apples and explain its function
2) True or false: If I want to produce more speakers I would make apple picking workers more
valuable in country A. Explain
3) Explain why the production possibility frontier is concave
4) Explain the following formula MPLa/MPLb = -Pb/Pa
5) What happens to the allocation of labor and the distribution of income when the prices of
Apple change? Explain using a graph