Which of the Following Does Not Illustrate the Concept of Opportunity

question 150

Multiple Choice

Which of the following does not illustrate the concept of opportunity cost?

• A)Between 1990 and 1997,the state of California laid off 10,000 of its university employees to have the money to hire 10,000 employees for its prison system.
• B)By reducing its unemployment rate,the United States dramatically increased its production of both civilian and war goods in the early years of World War II.
• C)A computer whiz at M.I.T.gives up her senior year at the university to take a high-paying position at a new company,Socrates.com.
• D)The Secretary of the Interior must choose between enforcing a law that would save the spotted owl,an endangered species or the loss of 500 logging jobs.

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Definitions:

Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

The theory that the structure of a language affects its speakers' world view or cognition, and thus people's perceptions are relative to their spoken language.

Hypothesis

A tentative explanation of the relationships among certain phenomena.

Sound Pitch

The auditory perception of the frequency of a sound wave, which determines the highness or lowness of a tone.

Branches of Linguistics

Various fields of study within the discipline of linguistics, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and others, focusing on different aspects of language.