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Labor productivity coefficients for the US and Brazil are given by the following table:
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Who has the comparative advantage in Wheat? In Clothing?
Draw the production possibility frontier for the US. (Put Wheat on the Y-axis and Clothing on the X-axis)
For Brazil (Put Wheat on the Y-axis and Clothing on the X-axis)
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