You need a jacket, boots, and gloves, but the jacket you want will use up all the money you have available for outerwear. What is your opportunity cost if you buy the jacket? What is your sunk cost if you buy the jacket? How could you modify your consumption to reduce opportunity cost? If you buy the jacket but find that you need the boots and gloves, how could you modify your budget to compensate for your sunk cost?

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Paxton Malone

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10 June, 08:51

You need a jacket, boots, and gloves, but the jacket you want will use up all the money you have available for outerwear. What is your opportunity cost if you buy the jacket? What is your sunk cost if you buy the jacket? How could you modify your consumption to reduce opportunity cost? If you buy the jacket but find that you need the boots and gloves, how could you modify your budget to compensate for your sunk cost?

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Gonzales · Answer 1

a. The cost opportunity will be buy the boots, and gloves

b. the money you use to buy the jacket

c. You could purchase the boots and gloves

d. You will have to sacrifice the money you have for another destiny

Explanation:

a. What is your opportunity cost if you buy the jacket?

The cost opportunity will be buy the boots, and gloves

b. What is your sunk cost if you buy the jacket?

Sunk costs are the costs that have already been spent so, the money you use to buy the jacket is the sunk cost.

c. How could you modify your consumption to reduce opportunity cost?

To reduce opportunity cost, you could purchase the boots and gloves and forfeit the jacket. Here, only sacrificing one outerwear instead of two.

d. If you buy the jacket but find that you need the boots and gloves, how could you modify your budget to compensate for your sunk cost?

If you need the boots and gloves and you already spent all the money you have to buy outwear, You will have to sacrifice the money you have for another destiny, for example, the money you have to go out.