You Have Chosen to Take a Trip During the Mid-Semester

question 109

Multiple Choice

You have chosen to take a trip during the mid-semester break. If you had not gone, you would either have worked at a temporary job or studied for exams. The opportunity cost of your trip is

• A) We cannot determine what the opportunity cost is without knowing which alternative, working or studying, you would have preferred.
• B) the wages you would have earned from working.
• C) the wages you would have earned from working and the lower grade earned by not studying.
• D) the value of the trip.
• E) the lower grade earned by not studying.

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