Maria can read 20 pages of economics in an hour. She can also read 50 pages of

Question:

Maria can read 20 pages of economics in an hour. She can also read 50 pages of sociology in an hour. She spends 5 hours per day studying.

a. Draw Maria’s production possibilities frontier for reading economics and sociology.

b. What is Maria’s opportunity cost of reading 100 pages of sociology?

Opportunity Cost
Opportunity cost is the profit lost when one alternative is selected over another. The Opportunity Cost refers to the expected returns from the second best alternative use of resources that are foregone due to the scarcity of resources such as land,...