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A county mobile library service has one vehicle available for an additional weekly task. It ranks the tasks in order of preference, with rank 1 as its first choice. The service chooses book delivery to villages.

TaskRank
Book delivery to villages1
Collecting books from housebound readers2
Taking books to a local event3

Explain the opportunity cost of the service's choice.

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1.2 The basic economic problem Questions

  1. GCSE
  2. /Economics
  3. /1.2 The basic economic problem

77 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Economics 1.2 The basic economic problem, covering 1.2.1 Scarce resources and unlimited wants, 1.2.2 The economic problem, 1.2.3 Opportunity cost, and 1.2.4 Costs and benefits of economic choices. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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