Answer: 50 additional tons of hamburgers
Explanation:
United States opportunity costs:
Hamburger opportunity cost = 45/100 = 0.45 tons of tacos
Taco opportunity cost = 100/45 = 2.22 tones of hamburgers
Mexico opportunity cost:
Hamburger opportunity cost = 25/20 = 1.25 tons of tacos
Taco opportunity cost = 20/25 = 0.8 tones of hamburgers
US should specialize in Hamburger production because they have a lower opportunity cost.
If both countries combined production of hamburgers then the total would be:
= 100 + 20
= 120 tons of hamburgers
There is missing information on this question which is the US production of hamburgers when it produces 0 tacos. We shall assume that number to be 170 tons of hamburgers.
The total additional tons produced would be:
= US tons when producing only hamburgers - Combined hamburger production
= 170 - 120
= 50 additional tons of hamburgers
