1. Give three examples of opportunity cost from your day-to-day life‚ and how you made your decision based on opportunity cost. Discuss whether or not these opportunity costs are same or different than monetary costs - I am trying to lose some weight so I have been trying to be more active. However‚ there are days that I am very much not active and spend time watching television or being lazy around the house. When not working out‚ my opportunity cost is losing weight and being healthier. When being
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supplies price rises every so often. 2.) Define opportunity cost. What is the opportunity cost to you of attending college? What was your opportunity cost of coming to class today? The opportunity cost of an item is what you give up to get that item. I’m not really sure what opportunity cost of coming to class today‚ but once in done I’m sure I will know the opportunity cost it took to come to class. I don’t really think I had an opportunity cost to coming to class because I don’t work at the moment
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The Cost of Something Mankiw’s Ten Principles of Economics Opportunity cost is the value of the next best alternative in a decision. Imagine that you have $150 to see a concert. You can either see "Hot Stuff" or you can see "Good Times Band." Assume that you value Hot Stuff’s concert at $225 and Good Times’ concert at $150. Both concerts cost $150 per ticket‚ but it would take you a couple of hours to drive to Hot Stuff’s concert and you have to be in school (the next) morning for an exam. Good
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Question Chapter 4 (4-2)What is an opportunity cost rate? How is this rate used in discounted cash flow analysis‚ and where is it shown on a time line? Is this opportunity rate a single number that is used to evaluate all potential investment? The rate of return you would earn on an alternative investment of small risk if you don’t invest in the security under consideration. An opportunity cost is the difference in return between an investment that has chosen for investment and one that is inevitably
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ECONOMIC SCENE The Opportunity Cost of Economics Education By ROBERT H. FRANK Published: September 1‚ 2005 SHORTLY after I began teaching‚ more than 30 years ago‚ three friends in different cities independently sent me the same New Yorker cartoon depicting a woman introducing a man to a friend at a party. "Mary‚ I’d like you to meet Marty Thorndecker‚" she began. "He’s an economist‚ but he’s really very nice." Forum: The Economy Cartoons are data. That people find them amusing usually
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Opportunity cost is often to be determined when coming across decision-making. Throughout this essay‚ the term ‘opportunity cost’ will be reviewed in the case of pregnant women staying home during their maternity leave. The essay will be divided into 3 part. Firstly‚ concept of opportunity cost will be defined and explained with daily examples. It will then go on investigating both the opportunity cost and benefits of mothers staying home during their maternal leave. Finally‚ several advices will
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Factor market 2. List the opportunity costs of the following: a. going to college - the money you would have earned if you worked instead. b. missing a lecture – takes away from your knowledge of that lesson. c. withdrawing and spending $100 from your savings account‚ which earns 5 percent interest annually – you would lose $5 if you take out $100. d. going snowboarding on the weekend before final examinations - A chance you will not do as well on your exams. 3. Farmer Fred could grow
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one must evaluate the opportunity cost of each Plan. An opportunity cost is what must be given up in order to obtain some item (Mankiw 483). Specifically if you cannot accomplish both Plans‚ but have to choose one over the other‚ you would look at what you’re giving up from one in order to obtain the other. Opportunity costs are key when viewing economics‚ as we have to take things into consideration that may otherwise be ignored. For example when looking at the opportunity cost of a job‚ we must evaluate
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Application of Opportunity Costs Donald G. Fox Sr. ECON220-1103A-24 Unit 1 IP AIU Online Michelle and James both‚ produce potatoes and chickens. Michelle can produce 200 potatoes and 50 chickens per year‚ and James can produce 80 potatoes and 40 chickens per year. What is Michelle ’s opportunity cost of producing potatoes? If opportunity costs‚ is opportunity lost‚ then Michelle devoting 100% of her time to produce 200 potatoes her cost would be 100% loss of 50 chickens. What is Michelle
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Any monetary costs from going skiing‚ as well as anything you lose by going skiing‚ wages or time studying. The cost of skiing instead of going to the library to study is the costs associated with skiing along with the knowledge that could of be gained by going to the library. Since the cost of going to the library cannot be measured in monetary terms‚ it will vary from person to person. A person who needs to study for a final to be taken on Monday may give up more than someone who is going to the
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