Production possibilities frontiers usually curve out and away from the origin. The implication of this curvature is that: a. the opportunity cost of producing a good stays the same regardless of how much of that good is produced.

b. the opportunity cost of producing a good goes down as more of that good is produced.

c. some resources are better at producing one good while other resources are better at producing alternative goods.

d. technological change is present.

e. as resources are used to produce one good, fewer resources are available to produce another good.

Your parents have accumulated a $170,000 nest egg. they have been planning to use this money to pay college costs to be incurred by you and your sister, courtney. however, courtney has decided to forgo college and start a nail salon. your parents are giving courtney $20,000 to her get started, and they have decided to take year-end vacations costing $8,000 per year for the next four years. use 8 percent as the appropriate interest rate throughout this problem. use appendix a and appendix d for an approximate answer, but calculate your final answer using the formula and financial calculator methods. a. how much money will your parents have at the end of four years to you with graduate school, which you will start then?

On analyzing her company’s goods transport route, simone found that they could reduce transport costs by a quarter if they merged different transport routes. what role (job) does simone play at her company? simone is at her company.

(a) what was the opportunity cost of non-gm food for many buyers before 2008? (b) why did they prefer the alternative? (c) what was the opportunity cost in 2008? (d) why did it change?