Draw a Production Possibilities Frontier Showing Increasing Opportunity Cost for Hammers

Essay

Draw a production possibilities frontier showing increasing opportunity cost for hammers and horseshoes.
a. On the graph, identify the area of feasible outcomes and the area of unfeasible outcomes.
b. On the graph, label a point that is efficient as point E and a point that is inefficient as point I.
c. On the graph, illustrate the effect of the discovery of a new vein of iron ore, a resource needed to make both horseshoes and hammers, on this economy.
d. On a separate graph for hammers and horseshoes, illustrate the effect a new computerized assembly line in the production of hammers would have.