15. Assuming Portugal has 180 man-hours (mhrs) of labor resource available for production, and labor is the only resource, the per unit resource cost of cloth in Portugal is ____ mhrs/yard. (Please do NOT reduce fractions to decimals.)

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15. Assuming Portugal has 180 man-hours (mhrs) of labor resource available for production, and labor is the only resource, the per unit resource cost of cloth in Portugal is ____ mhrs/yard. (Please do NOT reduce fractions to decimals.)

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Transcribed Image Text:90 Portugal- 80 70 60 50 PPF 40 30 20 10 10 20 30 40 50 60 cloth wine
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Production possibility frontier is the indication of the various production possibilities of the tow good when the resource such as labour and capitals are fixed. Production of one good can only be increased by reducing the production of the other goods.

 

 

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