Comparative Advantage
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- Each morning, you split 30 minutes between preparing burgers and preparing fries for later sale.
- Your screen tells you how many fries and how many burgers you make per minute.
- You divide your time by using the + buttons and pressing Bring X Combos.
- Because you have 30 minutes in total, as you increase time preparing an item, time spent on the other decreases.
- You sell only one item: Combos consisting of one burger and one order of fries.
- Your earnings equal the number of Combos you bring.
- I.e., whichever is smaller: the number of fries you bring or the number of burgers you bring.
- You make 2 burgers per minute you spend on burgers.
- You make 1 order of fries per minute you spend on fries.
- You spend 14 minutes preparing burgers and 16 minutes preparing fries.
| Earnings |
= |
Combos=minimum{Burgers, Fries} |
| Earnings |
= |
minimum{14 × 2, 16 × 1} |
| 16 |
= |
minimum{28, 16} |