For Which of the Following Individuals Would the Opportunity Cost

question 74

Multiple Choice

For which of the following individuals would the opportunity cost of going to college be highest?

• A)a promising young mathematician who will command a high salary once she earns her college degree
• B)a student with average grades who has never held a job
• C)a famous,highly-paid actor who wants to take time away from show business to finish college and earn a degree
• D)a student who is the best player on his college basketball team,but who lacks the skills necessary to play professional basketball

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Definitions:

Individualistic Model

A theory in ecology that suggests communities are a chance assemblage of species with similar abiotic requirements, rather than a tightly integrated unit.

Henry Gleason

An early 20th-century ecologist known for his individualistic concept of plant communities, challenging the notion of plant communities as superorganisms.

Community Model

A theoretical framework used to understand the complex interactions and relationships within ecological communities.

Müllerian Mimicry

A form of biological mimicry where two or more harmful species, that are not closely related, evolve to look similar, which reinforces the avoidance behavior in predators.