bubidag wrote:
My advice for everyone here would be to imagine that we have the same acreage at the beginning.
Meaning if we compare 100 acreage from Soviet Union and USA we will get, 68% yield and 100% yield, respectively.
Now we can see that the American yield will be slightly diluted with the addition of fallow acreage, this indicated by having 114% Soviet yield and 100% American yield.
The next step would be to imagine what could cause the yield to get diluted:
In all honesty since it is stated that it is fallow (meaning that it yields nothing) we are able to assume that we will be having more fallow land added to US than to Soviet.
A math way of thinking about it is-->(original scenario 68(crop)/100(acreage) Soviet-------100/100US)-----(second scenario----->we imagine we add some increment to soviet that is so small that we can neglect it 68/100 SOVIET----100/167( meaning we add the additional acreage in amount of 67) US-->this yielding back about 114% Soviet of US
Hi, Thanks for the explanation.
I have once concern.
I understood the 1st part that if we compare 100 planted acreage(PA) from Soviet Union and USA we will get, 68% yield and 100% yield, respectively.
PA(Soviet)=0.68PA(US)
But in the 2nd part Soviet has 114% of the Total Acreage(TA) of that of US.
and TA=PA+fallow
Hence TA(Soviet)=114/100[TA(US)]
[PA+fallow](Soviet)=114/100[PA+fallow](US)
0.68PA(US)+fallow(Soviet)=1.14PA(US)+1.14fallow(US)
fallow(Soviet)=0.46PA(US)+1.14fallow(US)
Hence, by this logic
fallow(Soviet)>fallow(US)
Please tell me where I am wrong and what could have been the proper method