Suppose a manager is deciding how to allocate tasks to two workers. He needs them to produce written reports and to complete data analysis. Ava can make analyze a dataset in 10 hours and can write report in 8 hours. Ben can analyze a dataset in 15 hours and can write the report in 10 hours.

(a) Who has the absolute advantage in writing reports?

(b) Who has the absolute advantage in data analysis?

(c) Who has the comparative advantage in writing reports?

(d)The manager decides to let workers specialize in just one task instead of each workers doing both types of task. Who should the manager assign to each task?