Question 1 Report
A youth theatre has a fixed weekly budget. It can hire either extra lighting equipment or more acting workshops, so choosing one use of its income means giving up another.
(a) What is meant by opportunity cost in this situation? [2]
Opportunity cost is the next best alternative forgone. [1] In this case, if the theatre uses its fixed budget to hire extra lighting equipment, the acting workshops it could instead have provided are forgone. [1]
The key word is next best: opportunity cost is not every possible thing the theatre cannot buy, but the most valuable alternative sacrificed.
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