You are in charge of allocating residents to your dormitorys baseball and basketball teams. You are down

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You are in charge of allocating residents to your dormitory€™s baseball and basketball teams. You are down to the last four people, two of whom must be allocated to baseball and two to basketball. The accompanying table gives each person€™s batting average and free-throw average.

Name Batting average Free-throw average 70% Kelley Nina 60% 50% 50% Curt 10% 30% Yul 70% 80%


a. Explain how you would use the concept of comparative advantage to allocate the players. Begin by establishing each player€™s opportunity cost of free throws in terms of batting average.

b. Why is it likely that the other basketball players will be unhappy about this arrangement but the other baseball players will be satisfied? Nonetheless, why would an economist say that this is an efficient way to allocate players for your dormitory€™s sports teams?

Opportunity Cost
Opportunity cost is the profit lost when one alternative is selected over another. The Opportunity Cost refers to the expected returns from the second best alternative use of resources that are foregone due to the scarcity of resources such as land,...
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Macroeconomics

ISBN: 978-1319120054

3rd Canadian edition

Authors: Paul Krugman, Robin Wells, Iris Au, Jack Parkinson

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