Margo spends $30,000 on one year's college tuition. The opportunity cost of spending one year in college for Margo is:

A. whatever she would have earned had she not been in college.

B. whatever she would have purchased with the $30,000 instead.

C. whatever she would have purchased with the $30,000 plus

D. whatever she would have earned had she not been in college. $30,000.

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Trey Butler

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11 November, 16:43

Margo spends $30,000 on one year's college tuition. The opportunity cost of spending one year in college for Margo is:

A. whatever she would have earned had she not been in college.

B. whatever she would have purchased with the $30,000 instead.

C. whatever she would have purchased with the $30,000 plus

D. whatever she would have earned had she not been in college. $30,000.

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Eli Grant · Answer 1

Purchases she could have made with $30,000 plus the earnings foregone

Explanation:

Opportunity cost refers to the benefit obtained from the next best alternative.

Here, the opportunity cost of spending a year in the college is the purchases worth of $30,000 that she would have do it and the money income that she would have earned it.

Opportunity cost can be represented in terms of monetary and non monetary.