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We're going to be looking at the calculation of comparative advantage.
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Okay, so basically this is an advantage a country has for producing goods at a lower opportunity cost than another country.
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So we deem that country to have a comparative advantage if it can produce goods at a lower opportunity cost than another country.
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So the information that we've given pertains to two countries, which is the united states and mexico.
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So the two products is bali.
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So these measured in parcels as well as corn.
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Now, so basically we want to find out which country has the comparative advantage in the production of bali, which has a competitive advantage in the production of corn.
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So let's start off with the usa.
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So the usa produces either 600 basals of barley or 600 basals of corn.
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So if you are going to be looking at the opportunity cost in production of barley, so it's actually going to be 600 over 600, which is basically going to be one.
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And the opportunity cost in the production of corn is actually going to be 600 divided by 600 as well.
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It's just removed the other line to the fusion.
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So it's 600 over 600, which is equal to 1...