Law of rising opportunity costs

Question

Below described table is a production possibilities table for consumer goods (automobiles) and capital goods (forklifts):

If the economy is at point C, describe the cost of one more automobile? Of one more forklift? Describe how the production possibilities curve reflects the law of rising opportunity costs.

Answer 1

4.5 forklifts; .33 automobiles, as find out from the table.  Rising opportunity costs are reflected in the concave-from-the-origin shape of the curve.  This means the economy has to give up larger and larger amounts of rockets to obtain constant added amounts of automobiles—and vice versa.