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In the course of basic economic activities, every society has to face a scarcity of resources, and the scarcity of resources rises which of the following problem?

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✅ Correct Option: 3

Since resources are scarce relative to unlimited wants and have alternative uses, every society must decide how to allocate them, what to produce, how to produce and for whom. Scarcity therefore gives rise to the fundamental problem of choice, which is the central problem of economics.

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