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worker hours to produce one barrel of crude oil worker hours to produce one ton of coal

united states
developed
4
5

country a
developing
6
5

country b
developed
7
3

using the chart, identify an example of comparative advantage for the united states over either country a or country b. be sure to identify the product and the country. explain how the availability and use of a natural resource may impact advantage.

Which groups of people most directly benefited from song innovations in the song dynasty‘s open border policy?

Which is the best description of how a scholarship differs from a federal education grant?

Voters commonly condemn politicians for being insincere, but politicians often must disguise their true feelings when they make public statements. if they expressed their honest views—about, say, their party's policies—then achieving politically necessary compromises would be much more difficult. clearly, the very insincerity that people decry shows that our government is functioning well. which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines this reasoning? (a) achieving political compromises is not all that is necessary for the proper functioning of a government. (b) some political compromises are not in the best long-term interest of the government. (c) voters often judge politicians by criteria other than the sincerity with which they express their views. (d) a political party's policies could turn out to be detrimental to the functioning of a government. (e) some of the public statements made by politicians about their party's policies could in fact be sincere.