Rather Than Go Out to Eat by Yourself, You Decide

question 69

Essay

Rather than go out to eat by yourself, you decide to stay at home and fix dinner for yourself and your two roommates.Your roommates applaud your decision.
a. Your first roommate tells you that your decision to eat at home has no opportunity cost because you already have all the dinner ingredients in your pantry.Is this roommate's comment correct?
b. When preparing dinner, you use some milk that has a pull-date of tomorrow, so that the milk would not be good tomorrow.Your second roommate notices the date on the carton, and comments that the cost of the milk you are using is a sunk cost.Is this roommate's comment correct?

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Definitions:

Glycolysis

The first stage of cellular respiration as well as fermentation; literally the “splitting of sugar.” The metabolic conversion of glucose into pyruvate, accompanied by the production of ATP

Oxidative Decarboxylation

A metabolic process in which a carboxyl group is removed from a molecule as CO2, typically coupled with the reduction of NAD+ to NADH.

Pyruvates

The ionized form of pyruvic acid, a key intermediate in several metabolic pathways, including glycolysis.

Acetyl CoA

A molecule that plays a key role in metabolism, serving as a substrate for the Krebs cycle and fatty acid synthesis; it links glycolysis and pyruvate oxidation with the citric acid cycle.