Answer:
a. 1.5 pizza
b. 1.39 pizza
c. Alyssa has an absolute advantage in brewing beer
d. Crystal has a comparative advantage in brewing beer
e. Crystal will easily trade away pizza for root beer
f. there's no limit to the highest price
g. lowest price is 0.719 beer root/pizza
Explanation:
Alyssa takes 3 hrs to brew a gallon of root beers and 2 hrs to make a pizza
Crystal takes 7 hrs to brew a gallon of root beer and 5 hrs to make a pizza
Alyssa make 1 gallon/3 hrs = 0.33 gallons/hr of beer, and the same way makes 0.5 pizza/hr
Crystal makes 0.143 gallon/hr of beer, and 0.2 pizza/hr
for Alyssa, 0.33 gallons/hr = 0.5 pizza/hr, therefore
1 gallon of beer = 0.5/0.33 = 1.51 pizza
for crystal, 1 gallon of beer = 0.2/0.143 = 1.39 pizza
price of pizza:
Alyssa = 0.662 root beer/pizza
Crystal = 0.719 root beer/pizza