Hey Alexis! How is your business with the lip gloss and bonnets coming along?
Hi Samantha! It's coming along just fine... How about you?
That's great! the business is doing good. I make 40 lip gloss per day and 10 bonnets per day.
That's awesome! I make 30 lip gloss per day and 15 bonnets per day
Wow! well it seems like you have an absolute advantage when producing bonnets and I have an advantage when it comes to producing lipgloss.
Yes! but I feel like if we look at our relative prices per lip gloss or bonnet, I bet you will have a comparative advantage.
What does that mean?
It's basically the relative price of goods, which attributed the cause and benefits of international trade that emerges from exchange and specialization
Is it okay if you show me an example of that?
Sure! I can use our own numbers of the lip gloss and bonnet production
Okay! that sounds good
Alright! so we need to calculate the opportunity cost of lip gloss in connection with bonnets, which is 40 lip gloss per day / 10 bonnets per day. That's equals to .25 bonnet per lip gloss.