Q) When a country has a comparative advantage in producing a certain good, A: the country should import that good. B: the country should produce just enough of that good for its own consumption. C:the country’s opportunity cost of that good is high relative to other countries’ opportunity costs of that same good. D: then specializing in the production of that good and trading for other goods could allow that country to consume at a point beyond its production possibilities frontier

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Q) When a country has a comparative advantage in producing a certain good,

A: the country should import that good.

B: the country should produce just enough of that good for its own consumption.

C:the country’s opportunity cost of that good is high relative to other countries’ opportunity costs of that same good.

D: then specializing in the production of that good and trading for other goods could allow that country to consume at a point beyond its production possibilities frontier

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