1. A firm currently produces 500 units of a good X and 300 of a good Y using its resources. In the following week it decides to produce 600 units of X and 250 Y. What is the opportunity cost of the decision to produce 100 more units of X. 2. In the diagram below, country A is currently producing at point A. What would be the opportunity cost of a decision to reallocate its resources to produce at point B so it could produce more cheese.

Potentially, a large spill can be: a) an environmental threat, if it gets into drains b) a dangerous fire hazard c) harmful to individuals d) all of the above

Voters commonly condemn politicians for being insincere, but politicians often must disguise their true feelings when they make public statements. if they expressed their honest views—about, say, their party's policies—then achieving politically necessary compromises would be much more difficult. clearly, the very insincerity that people decry shows that our government is functioning well. which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines this reasoning? (a) achieving political compromises is not all that is necessary for the proper functioning of a government. (b) some political compromises are not in the best long-term interest of the government. (c) voters often judge politicians by criteria other than the sincerity with which they express their views. (d) a political party's policies could turn out to be detrimental to the functioning of a government. (e) some of the public statements made by politicians about their party's policies could in fact be sincere.

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