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-(Figure: Production Possibility Frontier)Use Figure: Production Possibilities Frontier.If the economy is operating at point B,producing 16 cars and 12 computers per period,a decision to move to point E and produce 18 computers:
A)indicates that you can have more computers and more cars simultaneously.
B)makes it clear that this economy has decreasing opportunity costs.
C)entails a loss of 8 cars per period.
D)entails a loss of 4 cars per period.

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-(Figure: Production Possibility Frontier)Use Figure: Production Possibilities Frontier.If the economy is operating at point B,producing 16 cars and 12 computers per period,a decision to move to point E and produce 18 computers:
A)indicates that you can have more computers and more cars simultaneously. 
B)makes it clear that this economy has decreasing opportunity costs. 
C)entails a loss of 8 cars per period. 
D)entails a loss of 4 cars per period.

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Moving from point B to point E results in producing 18 computers instead of 12, but the number of cars produced decreases from 16 to 8, which is a loss of 8 cars per period.

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