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Questions
What is opportunity cost?
What do you understand by opportunity cost?
What is meant by opportunity cost?
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Solution
Opportunity cost, or alternative cost, is the benefit of the second-best use of a firm’s resources that is foregone to reap the return from the best use of those resources.
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