Production possibilities frontiers curve when they are charted on a graph because they show:

a) the underutilization of resources
b) the maximum output of goods and services
c) the increasing costs resulting in increasingly less output
d) the technological level of the economy's productivity


Ans: c) the increasing costs resulting in increasingly less output

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