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Carlos is an executive of a major corporation. Boris is a baker. Carlos earns a salary ten times as large as the salary Boris earns, and Carlos has a much larger oven for baking break.
 
  Carlos can make a loaf of bread that tastes better than Boris's bread but Boris can bake faster. A) Carlos has an absolute and comparative advantage over Boris in making bread.
  B) Carlos has an absolute but not comparative advantage over Boris in making bread.
  C) Carlos had a comparative but not absolute advantage over Boris in making bread.
  D) Carlos does not have an absolute or comparative advantage over Boris in making bread.

Question 2

A change in the ceteris paribus conditions for supply will lead to a
 
  A) change in quantity supplied.
  B) change in supply.
  C) change in quantity supplied and a change in supply.
  D) change in how consumers view the quality of the good.



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Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

B



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