You’re dreaming of what to do while stuck at home. You could wash the dishes which you would pay someone $5 to do for you. You could play Minecraft which you value at $11. You could also take a nap and ignore everyone and everything else which you would pay $17 to do. If you to take a nap, what is your opportunity cost?
Group of answer choices
$17
$16
$11
$5
Opportunity cost is the value of next best alternative that you have foregone in order to choose the alternative you have chose.
Here he chose to take a nap. If he did not take the nap then he can either wash the dishes and save $5 or he can play minecraft and thus obtain utility worth $12.
So, If he does not take a nap, then his next best alternative is play minecraft($11 >$ 5) which is worth $11. So, In order to take a nap he has sacrificed $11(Next best alternative) and opportunity cost of taking a nap is $11.
Hence, the correct answer is (c) $11.
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