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At the current point of production on a nationʹs production possibilities frontier, the marginal benefit of a slice of pizza is 500 tacos per slice of pizza while the marginal cost of producing a slice of pizza is 750 tacos per slice of pizza. To be allocatively efficient, what should be done?  Quantity  (millions of  bushes of  apples)  Marginal  benefit  (oranges per  bushel)  Marginal Cost  (oranges per  bushel) 510110831566204925212\begin{array}{|l|l|l|}\hline\begin{array}{l}\text { Quantity } \\\text { (millions of } \\\text { bushes of } \\\text { apples) }\end{array} & \begin{array}{l}\text { Marginal } \\\text { benefit } \\\text { (oranges per } \\\text { bushel) }\end{array} & \begin{array}{l}\text { Marginal Cost } \\\text { (oranges per } \\\text { bushel) }\end{array} \\\hline 5 & 10 & 1 \\\hline 10 & 8 & 3 \\\hline 15 & 6 & 6 \\\hline 20 & 4 & 9 \\\hline 25 & 2 & 12 \\\hline\end{array}

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