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Your roommate is a better cook than you are, but you can clean more quickly than your
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Your roommate is a better cook than you are, but you can clean more quickly than your roommate can. If your roommate did all the cooking and you did all the cleaning, would your chores take you more or less time than if you divided each task evenly? Give a similar example of how specialization and trade can make two countries both better off.
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Your roommate is a better cook than you are, but you can clean more quickly than your roommate can. If your roommate did all the cooking and you did all the cleaning, would your chores take you more or less time than if you divided each task evenly? Give a similar example of how specialization and trade can make two countries both better off.
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Instead of dividing the work of cleaning and cooking with the roommate, if we tend to perform the work in which we are taking less time, it would be beneficial for us to take less time to complete both cooking and cleaning. It is because here, the roommate is specialized in cooking activities compared to me, and I am specialized in cleaning activities compared to my roommate for which the work can be completed in a short duration.