What is the maximum number of pies he could buy weekly

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Macroeconomics Assignment -

Assignment Question -

Q1: Jamal's weekly budget is $48, which he spends on magazines and pies.

A) If the price of a magazine is $8 each, what is the maximum number of magazines he could buy in a week?

B) If the price of a pie is $24, what is the maximum number of pies he could buy weekly?

C) Draw Jamal's budget constraint with pies on the horizontal axis and magazines on the vertical axis. Draw the slope of the budget constraint?

D) What is Jamal's opportunity cost of purchasing a pie?

Q2: Many of the goods that China's Citizens enjoy are produced abroad, and many of the goods produced in the China are sold abroad. When goods are produced abroad and sold domestically, the process is called import and when goods are produced domestically and sold abroad, that processis called export. Suppose an average worker in China can produce one kg of soybeans in 40 minutes and one Kg of coffee in 120 minutes, while an average worker in Paraguaycan produce one kg of soybeans in 100 minutes and one kg of coffee in 150 minutes. Answer the following questions.

A) Which country has the absolute advantage in coffee? Explain.

B) Which country should produce coffee? Explain.

C) If the two countries specialize and trade with each other, which country will import coffee? Explain.

D) Assume that the two countries trade with each other and the country importing coffee trades 2 Kgs of soybeans for 1 Kg of coffee. Explain why both countries will benefit from this trade.

Q3: Illustrates the interaction (equilibrium point) of demand and supply in the market for petrol based on the table below. And explain following conditions.

A) Show excess supply (surplus of petrol) and excess in Demand (shortage of petrol) in thesame graph and explain.

B) Suppose the government decided that, since petrol is a necessity, its price should be legally capped at $1.30 per gallon. What do you anticipate would be the outcome in the petrol market if at this price quantity supplied in the market is 575 Millions of gallons?

Price(pergallon in $)	Quantity Demanded (millions ofgallons)	Quantity Supplied (millions ofgallons)
1.00	800	500
1.20	700	550
1.40	600	600
1.60	550	640
1.80	500	680

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