Suppose that a worker in Country A can make either 25 bananas or 5 tomatoes each year.Country A has 200 workers.Suppose a worker in Country B can make either 18 bananas or 6 tomatoes each year.Country B has 400 workers.For a worker in Country B,the trade-off to making one tomato is:
A) 2 bananas.
B) 3 bananas.
C) 4 bananas.
D) 5 bananas.

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A worker in Country B can either make 18 bananas or 6 tomatoes each year. Therefore, the opportunity cost of making one tomato is the number of bananas that worker could have made instead.

To find this, we need to calculate the ratio of bananas to tomatoes for a worker in Country B:

- Bananas per tomato = 18/6 = 3

This means that for every tomato a worker in Country B makes, they give up the opportunity to make 3 bananas.

Therefore, the trade-off to making one tomato for a worker in Country B is 3 bananas.

So the answer is B) 3 bananas.

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