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SOLUTIONS TO TEXT PROBLEMS: Quick Quizzes 1. Figure 1 shows a production possibilities frontier for Robinson Crusoe between gathering coconuts and catching fish. If Crusoe lives by himself, this frontier limits his consumption of coconuts and fish, but if he can trade with natives on the island he will be able to consume at a point outside his production possibilities frontier. Figure 1 2. Crusoe’s opportunity cost of catching one fish is 10 coconuts, since he can gather 10 coconuts in the same amount of time it takes to catch one fish. Friday’s opportunity cost of catching one fish is 15 co