all town, there's a mousepad factory which employs workers at $8 an hour, for fort eeks. There is an old composer in town, who expects to complete anopera in a yea n the other hand, if he were not composing, he would give harp lessons, and charg ents $15 an hour. What is his opportunity cost inwriting his opera? Explain the ptions you made in deriving this answer. WHICH
all town, there's a mousepad factory which employs workers at $8 an hour, for fort eeks. There is an old composer in town, who expects to complete anopera in a yea n the other hand, if he were not composing, he would give harp lessons, and charg ents $15 an hour. What is his opportunity cost inwriting his opera? Explain the ptions you made in deriving this answer. WHICH
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Transcribed Image Text:In a small town, there's a mousepad factory which employs workers at $8 an hour, for forty-
hour weeks. There is an old composer in town, who expects to complete anopera in a year's
time. On the other hand, if he were not composing, he would give harp lessons, and charge
his students $15 an hour. What is his opportunity cost inwriting his opera? Explain the
assumptions you made in deriving this answer.
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