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- You were planning to spend Saturday working at your part-time job, but afriend asks you to go to Karma Beach. What is the opportunity cost of going to thebeach? Now suppose you had been planning to spend the day studying at the library.What is the cost of going to the beach in this case? Explain.Suppose that your tuition to attend college is $10,000 per year and you spend $4,000 per year on room and board. If you were working full time, you could earn $20,000 per year. What is your opportunity cost of attending college for one year? A) $14,000 B) $24,000 C) $30,000 D) $34,000 can you solve this Q and show me the steps for solving itYour friend Desmond is thinking about taking a year off of college to work. He argues that his opportunity cost of being in school is the money he is losing by not working and since classes are online he is not getting the full benefits from taking classes, Is he correctly applying the concepts of opportunity cost?O We don't have enough information to answer this question unless we know the marginal costs as well.O No, because he is not considering the low tuition rates of attending PCC and that he will save money by not having to drive to campus.O It depends on if he is taking classes at PCC or at an expensive private school.O Yes, because the opportunity cost is what else he would be doing if he wasn't in class and in this case he would be working if he wasn't in school.
- Suppose Liam's Automotive, a repair shop: offers two items: oil changes and tires. With all employees working diligently, the shop can produce these combinations each hour. Type of Product: Production Alternatives A B C D E Oil Changes 0 10 20 30 40 Tires. 80 60 40 35 0 Calculate the opportunity costs of moving from one point to each of the others (This is not a calculation provided in the text: What's the tradeoff?): Provide the answers after showing all work, and explain if theses costs are constant. What would it mean if the shop was actually doing 15 Oil Changes and 35 Tires? What would it mean if the shop was actually doing 35 Oil Changes and 35 tires?You can spend spring break either at home working for $80 per day for five days or go to Florida for the week. If you stay home, your expenses will total about $100. If you go to Florida, the airfare, the hotel, food, and miscellaneous expenses will total about $700. What’s your opportunity cost of going to Flordia?Bong-Cha is deciding what to do during the 30-minute break between her college classes. One rule she could follow is, “Choose the activity with the highest value” (A). Another rule she could follow is, “Choose the activity with the lowest opportunity cost” (B). Do you think Bong-Cha’s choice if she follows rule (A) will be the same as the choice she would make if she followed rule (B)? [another way to think about it, “Is rule (A) identical to rule (B) in a sense that they would both induce the same choice?”]. Explain. (8
- xt:Bong-Cha is deciding what to do during the 30-minute break between her college classes. One rule she could follow is, "Choose the activity with the highest value" (A). Another rule she could follow is, "Choose the activity with the lowest opportunity cost" (B). Do you think Bong-Cha's choice if she follows rule (A) will be the same as the choice she would make if she followed rule (B)? [another way to think about it, "Is rule (A) identical to rule (B) in a sense that they would both induce the same choice?"].Q.4. A consultant who earns $ 100 per hour takes 4 hours off work to go to the movies. The out – of- pocket cost for the cab and the movie ticket are $12. What is the opportunity cost (in $) of going to movie? What is the total cost of the movie to the consultant?Suppose a student has two options for the upcoming year. She can earn $30,000 next year working full-time at Albertson's, or earn $0 returning to college full-time for another year and paying $6,000 in tuition and fees. The opportunity cost of the student returning to college next year is a) $30,000 b) $6,000 c) $36,000 d) $0