The slope of a country's production possibility frontier with cloth measured on the horizontal and food measured on the vertical axis in the Ricardian model is equal to ________ and it ________ as more cloth is produced

A) -MPLF/MPLC; is constant
B) -MPLF/MPLC; becomes steeper
C) -MPLF/MPLC; becomes flatter
D) -MPLC/MPLF; becomes steeper
E) -MPLC/MPLF; is constant


A

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