中等ECON-DEMA-011
A café uses one kitchen hour either to fry egg tarts or to serve milk tea, and milk tea is the next best use. The opportunity cost of the egg tarts is:
A. The sum of every other dish the café could make
B. The value of the milk tea forgone✓ 答案
C. The sticker price of an egg tart
D. Zero, because the oven is already owned
解說
Opportunity cost is the value of the single next-best alternative, here the milk tea. It is not the sum of all other options, and owning the oven does not make the hour a free good.