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The consumer chooses the phone, so the rejected holiday is the opportunity cost, not the phone that was actually purchased."},{"text":"The opportunity cost is the phone’s price paid when the consumer buys a new phone.","correct":false,"explanation":"This confuses monetary expenditure with opportunity cost. The price shows how much money is spent, whereas the opportunity cost is the holiday forgone as the next best alternative."},{"text":"The opportunity cost is the phone and holiday forgone when the consumer makes the purchase.","correct":false,"explanation":"This incorrectly combines the chosen good with the rejected alternative. The phone is obtained, while only the next best alternative - the holiday - is forgone and counted as opportunity cost."}]},{"id":"89583080-5e31-4e2e-90e9-b679ff72ccbe","cardType":"basic","points":1,"front":"What does spending £40 on a concert ticket require the consumer to give up?","back":"The opportunity cost is the saving or meal out forgone by spending the £40.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"The opportunity cost is the saving or meal out forgone by spending the £40.","correct":true,"explanation":"The £40 is scarce and could have been used for the consumer’s next best alternative, such as saving or a meal out. That forgone alternative is the opportunity cost."},{"text":"The opportunity cost is the concert ticket itself forgone by spending the £40.","correct":false,"explanation":"This treats the chosen item as though it were sacrificed. 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The consumer gains the concert’s enjoyment, while giving up the next best alternative use of £40, such as saving or a meal out."}]},{"id":"75366eb8-01fd-42b4-8440-6d903959d343","cardType":"basic","points":1,"front":"What is the firm's opportunity cost when its machine makes Product A instead of Product B?","back":"The opportunity cost is the profit from Product B forgone by using the machine for Product A.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"The opportunity cost is the profit from Product B forgone by using the machine for Product A.","correct":true,"explanation":"The machine cannot produce both outputs with the same capacity. Using it for Product A therefore sacrifices the profit available from Product B, assuming B is the next best alternative."},{"text":"The opportunity cost is the profit from Product A forgone by using the machine for Product B.","correct":false,"explanation":"This reverses the production decision. 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Good decisions recognise resources as costly because using them means giving up their next best alternative use."},{"text":"Opportunity cost improves decisions by making decision-makers treat resources as free rather than costly.","correct":false,"explanation":"This reverses the principle and would encourage resources to be wasted. Opportunity-cost thinking treats resources as costly because each use sacrifices the benefit available from another use."},{"text":"Opportunity cost improves decisions by making decision-makers treat resources as valuable only when money is paid.","correct":false,"explanation":"This overlooks non-monetary and implicit costs, including time and owned resources. 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