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There are two countries Home and Foreign.
Home has 1,200 units of labor available. It can produce two goods, apples and bananas. The unit labor requirement in apple production is 3, while in banana production it is 2.
Foreign has a labor force of 800. Foreign's unit labor requirement in apple production is 5, while in banana production it is 1.
Suppose world relative demand takes the following form: Demand for apples/demand for bananas = price of bananas/price of apples.
1) a) The equation for Home's trade possibilities frontier (TPF) is
b) Home's maximum consumption of apples is
&
Home's maximum consumption of bananas is
2) a) The equation for Foreign's trade possibilities frontier (TPF*) is
b) Foreign's maximum consumption of apples is
&
Foreign's maximum consumption of bananas is