To Find the Opportunity Cost of Producing One More Unit

question 173

Multiple Choice

To find the opportunity cost of producing one more unit of any product while on the production possibilities frontier requires

• A) setting the amounts of the two products equal to each other.
• B) setting the change in one product equal to the change in the other product.
• C) dividing the amount of the product forgone by the amount of the product gained.
• D) subtracting the change in the product whose production increased from the change in the product whose production decreased.
• E) None of these describe how to find opportunity cost.

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Definitions:

Population Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variance in a population dataset, indicating how spread out the data points are from the population mean.

Sample Size

The number of observations or units included in a sample taken from a population for the purpose of statistical analysis.

Observed Z Value

A statistical measurement representing the number of standard deviations a data point is from the mean of a set of data.

Sample Mean

The average calculated from a sample of data, representing the central tendency of that sample.