Every society faces trade-offs because we live in a world of scarcity. suppose a student athlete has the opportunity to earn $200,00 next year playing for a minor league baseball team, $900,000 next year playing for a european professional football team, or $0 returning to college for another year the opportunity cost of the student athlete returning to college next year is $

Opportunity cost 900,000

Explanation:

The opportunity cost is the cost of the best alternative rejected, in order to do the pcurrent porohect.

The student, if picked to return on collegue, the opportunity cost will be the rejected baseball team or the rejected football team.

In this case, given two alternatives:

one for 20,000

and one for 900,000

the opportunity cost will be of 900,000 as is the best alternative

The opportunity cost for return to college will use this cost.