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aleksklad
11 days ago
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Suppose your expenses for this term are as follows: tuition: $10,000, room and board: $6,000, books and other educational suppli

es: $1,000. further, during the term, you can only work part-time and earn $8,000 instead of your full-time salary of $20,000. what is the opportunity cost of going to college this term, assuming that your room and board expenses would be the same even if you did not go to college?
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soldi70 [3.4K]11 days ago
6 0
Opportunity cost is defined as the loss incurred when one chooses one alternative over another.

In this scenario, the forgone option is full-time work along with other costs associated with that period when opting for schooling instead. Room and board expenses remain constant whether attending school or working full time, thus these are not factored in. Earnings from part-time work during school are deducted as they would have been earned during full-time employment.

Thus;
Opportunity cost = $20,000+$10,000+$1,000-$8,000 = $23,000
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