Question

Any value given up from the best alternative is called the _____ .

A. accounting cost
B. opportunity cost
C. trade-off

Answer 1

Answer: the answer is opportunity cost

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

This is known as the opportunity cost!

For example, imagine that you want to go to college and you consider UConn and UMass and UPenn. You think that UConn is the best, and you like UMass second best.

Then if you decide to go to UConn, your opportunity cost is not going to UMass.