Question

Imported Section 1 1) Lou and Alex live together and share household chores. They like to cook some meals ahead of time and eat leftovers. The table below shows the number of rooms they can each clean and the number of meals they can each cook in an hour. Rooms Cleaned Per Hour 5 3 Meals Cooked Per Hour 4 3 Lou Alex if Alex and Lou work out an efficient arrangement for these two chores, then under that arrangement: Lou would do all of the cleaning, while Alex would do all of the cooking Lou would do all of the cleaning and all of the cooking.

Answer 1

Q1) Opportunity cost of cleaning room for Lou = 4/5 meals

Opportunity cost of cleaning room for Alex = 3/3 = 1 meal

Since the opportunity cost of cleaning is lower for Lou, he should only clean rooms

The opportunity cost of cooking for Lou = 5/4 = 1.25 rooms

The opportunity cost of cooking for Alex = 3/3 = 1 rooms

Since the opportunity cost of cooking is lower for Alex, he should only cook meals.

Thus, the answer is (a)

Q2) Opportunity cost of moving one miner from Scraping bottom to other mine = contribution of one miner in scraping bottom = 30/10 = 3 tons

Thus, the answer is (a) 3 tons per day