a. Explain the concept of opportunity cost.
b. What is the opportunity cost of your sitting this exam?
c. What is the opportunity cost of you studying at the University?
a) It is the cost of the next best alternative not selected or forgone when a given alternative is selected. For any economic activity, its opportunity cost is the sum of explicit cost incurred on its appraisal and the implicit cost for which no payment is made but the cost is realized implicitly.
b) This depends on what you could have done while not giving this exam. If you were watching a movie, then the opportunity cost of this exam would have been the movie that you have sacrificed. If you had a job that paid you an hourly wage, then this wage could have been the opportunity cost of this exam
c) This would be the earnings you could have accumulated when you were working for a company and were not studying in the university.
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