If your tuition is $25,000 this semester, your books cost $1,500, you can only work 20 rather than 40 hours per week during the 15 weeks you are taking classes and you make $15 per hour, and your room and board is $7,500 this semester, then your opportunity cost of attending college this semester is O a. $38,500. O b. $31,000. O c. $26,800. O d. $26,500.

If your tuition is $25,000 this semester, your books cost $1,500, you can only work 20 rather than 40 hours per week during the 15 weeks you are taking classes and you make $15 per hour, and your room and board is $7,500 this semester, then your opportunity cost of attending college this semester is O a. $38,500. O b. $31,000. O c. $26,800. O d. $26,500.

Principles of Economics 2e

2nd Edition

ISBN:9781947172364

Author:Steven A. Greenlaw; David Shapiro

Publisher:Steven A. Greenlaw; David Shapiro

Chapter2: Choice In A World Of Scarcity

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