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4.1 Importance of international trade

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Question 17

A UK parcel depot is choosing between a UK-made sorting machine and an imported sorting machine. The machines are tested for one hour.

Sorting machineParcels sortedWorkers used
UK-made1,20012
Imported1,2008

Why may the depot choose the imported sorting machine to increase labour productivity?

[1]
A

Equal total output means labour productivity must be equal for both machines

B

Spreading the machine's cost over the parcels directly raises output per worker

C

Using fewer workers means each worker must sort fewer parcels with the imported machine

D

The same output is sorted with fewer workers when the imported machine is used

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4.1 Importance of international trade Questions

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  3. /4.1 Importance of international trade

85 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Economics 4.1 Importance of international trade, covering 4.1.1 Why countries import and export and 4.1.2 Free trade agreements. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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