E.1.9

E.1.9 Use a production possibilities curve to explain the concepts of choice, scarcity, opportunity costs, trade offs, unemployment, productivity, and growth.
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//Focus Question: How does a production possibilities curve explain economic concepts?//
[|Website that helps explain scarcity.]

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[|The Production Possibilities Frontier and its relation to Growth, Opportunity Cost, and Trade.]

The Production Possibilities Frontier represents the ideal. It assumes that all resources are being used as efficiently as possible. As resources such as labor and capital decrease, the overall efficiency of the economy decreases as well.