Country A has 100 units of labor and Country B has 200 units of labor. Both countries produce computers and Web pages. The unit labor requirements are given in the table below: Computers Web pages Country A 50 1 Country B 100 1 Assume free trade exists and that the relative price is such that both countries specialize completely in the industry in which they have a comparative advantage (neither country produces both goods). The supply of computers relative to Web pages will be:

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