Factors of Production and Opportunity Cost

What is opportunity cost?

• your choice
• what you give up to make a choice

What is scarcity? 

• Having too many resources 
• Not  having enough resources 

A popular bakery has only a few ingredients left to make their products.  They could bake muffins or cookies, but they can’t make both.  The bakers decide to make cookies for their customers.  What is the opportunity cost of their decision?

• muffins 
• cookies 

The Welch family has saved some money.  They can spend it on a vacation to the Grand Canyon or build a swimming pool in their back yard.  They decide to spend the money on a swimming pool.  What is the opportunity cost of their decision?

• vacation 
• swimming pool 

The local government for a community must decide what to do with the sales tax collected.  They could build a new skate park or they could buy more computers for the public library.  The officials decide to build a skate park.  What is the opportunity cost of their decision?

• new skate park
• more computers 

The economic problem is that

• resources are limited and wants are limited.

• resources are unlimited and wants are limited.

• resources are limited and wants are unlimited.

• resources are unlimited and wants are unlimited.

The opportunity cost of a good is

• its price in dollars and cents.

• the alternative goods forgone.

• the price of alternative goods foregone.

• none of the other options

Economics is the study of how

• gov't allocates scare resources to satisfy people's unlimited wants.
• gov't supplies money to businesses to produce goods & services.
• people use their scarce resources to satisfy their unlimited wants.
• businesses supply unlimited goods & services with limited resources.

Scarcity arises because all societies have

• limited productive resources to satisfy unlimited wants
• unlimited productive resources to satisfy limited wants
• limited needs and unlimited wants
• unlimited needs and limited wants

What factor of production is this?