St Atanagio is a remote island in the Atlantic. The inhabitants grow corn and breed poultry. The

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St Atanagio is a remote island in the Atlantic. The inhabitants grow corn and breed poultry. The accompanying table shows the maximum annual output combinations of corn and poultry that can be produced. Obviously, given their limited resources and available technology, as they use more of their resources for corn production, there are fewer resources available for breeding poultry.

What is the opportunity cost of increasing the annual output of corn from 800 to 1000 pounds? 4. What is the opportunity cost of increasing the annual output of corn from 200 to 400 pounds? 5. Can you explain why the answers to parts 3. and 4. above are not the same? What does this imply about the slope of the production possibility frontier?

Opportunity Cost
Opportunity cost is the profit lost when one alternative is selected over another. The Opportunity Cost refers to the expected returns from the second best alternative use of resources that are foregone due to the scarcity of resources such as land,...