Answer to Question #256558 in Microeconomics for Vita Hilmalia

Question

If Alexi devoted half of his time (5 out of 10 hours) to making street tacos and half of his time to making Cuban sandwiches, how many of each would he produce in a week? If Tony did the same, how many of each would he produce? How many street tacos and Cuban sandwiches would be produced in total?

Answer 1

Lets assume Alexi produces x tacos and y sandwiches per hour ,then if he spends 5 hours for production of each in a day, he would produce $5x$ tacos and $5y$ Cuban sandwiches in a day.

In a week,he would therefore produce $5x\times7=35x$ tacos and $5y\times 7$ =35 Cuban sandwiches.

If Tony did the same,then he would produce the same number of tacos and Cuban sandwiches as Alexi in a week.

The total number of street tacos and Cuban sandwiches produced by both will therefore be $35x\times 2=70x$ street tacos and $35y×2=70y$ Cuban tacos