The table below shows the daily production potential of two workers if they devote all their time to making either pizza or wings. Who has the absolute advantage at producing pizzas?
What will be an ideal response?
Debra Winger
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Absolute advantage refers to the ability of one producer to make more than another producer with the same quantity of resources. Under the pizza column you can see that Debra Winger can make 60 pizzas in a day, and Mike Piazza can make 24 pizzas. Therefore, Debra Winger has absolute advantage in pizza making.
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