This lesson on input questions based on absolute and comparative advantage will be on the Basic Economic Concepts portion of the AP examination(s). Different countries have different resources, causing them to have different production possibilities, as learned in past lessons. Thus, comparing different countries will demonstrate that certain countries will be better or worse at producing certain products than other countries. In the last lesson, we looked at countries producing different quantities of goods when given the same number of resources. However, in this lesson, we will look at countries producing the same goods when given different numbers of resources. For instance, let us say that Countries C and D both produce cars and trucks. Here are the production times for Country C, given their current resources: Here are the production times for Country D, given their current resources: Now, let us compare the production possibilities of the two countries
This lesson on absolute and comparative advantage will be on the Basic Economic Concepts portion of the AP examination(s). Different countries have different resources, causing them to have different production possibilities, as learned in past lessons. Thus, comparing different countries will demonstrate that certain countries will be better or worse at producing certain products than other countries. For instance, let us say that Countries A and B both produce apple juice and orange juice. Here are the production possibilities for Country A, given their current resources: Here are the production possibilities for Country B, given their current resources: When glancing at the production possibilities of both countries, it is evident that Country A produces more apple juice than Country B when given the same amount of resources. Therefore, Country A has an absolute advantage in the production of apple juice. Likewise, Country B produces more orange juice than C