The following questions practice these skills:
 Draw a linear production possibilities frontier.
 Draw a bowed production possibilities frontier.
 Compute opportunity costs from a production possibilities frontier.
 Identify feasible and infeasible and efficient and inefficient points from a production possibilities frontier.
 Identify comparative and absolute advantage from a production possibilities frontier.
 Describe trade based on comparative advantage.
 Identify positive and normative statements.
Two important industries on the island of Bermuda are fishing and tourism. According to data from the World Resources Institute and the Bermuda Department of Statistics, in the year 2000 the 307 registered fishermen in Bermuda caught 286 metric tons of marine fish. And the 3,409 people employed by hotels produced 538,000 hotel stays (measured by the number of visitor arrivals). Suppose that this production point is efficient in production. Assume also that the opportunity cost of one additional metric ton of fish is 2,000 hotel stays and that this opportunity cost is constant (the opportunity cost does not change).
a. If all 307 registered fishermen were to be employed by hotels (in addition to the 3,409 people already working in hotels), how many hotel stays could Bermuda produce?
b. If all 3,409 hotel employees were to become fishermen (in addition to the 307 fishermen already working in the fishing industry), how many metric tons of fish could Bermuda produce?
c. Draw a production possibility frontier for Bermuda, with fish on the horizontal axis and hotel stays on the vcrtical axis, and label Bermuda’s actual production point for the year 2000.

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Answer:

a. If all 307 registered fishermen were to be employed by hotels (in addition to the 3,409 people already working in hotels), how many hotel stays could Bermuda produce?

since the opportunity cost is constant, then if all 307 fishermen decided to become hotel workers, then the total number of hotel stays would be (286 tons of fish x 2,000 stays per ton) + 538,000 stays = 1,110,000 stays

b. If all 3,409 hotel employees were to become fishermen (in addition to the 307 fishermen already working in the fishing industry), how many metric tons of fish could Bermuda produce?

total number of fish caught = (538,000 stays / 2,000 tons per stay) + 286 tons of fish = 555 tons of fish caught

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