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The hospital is understaffed, and your boss offers you a full-time job working at the gift shop. You won’t be able to focus on the nursing program along with a full-time job, so you decide to turn down the offer.

Which of these is an example of opportunity cost in this situation?
Question 6 options:

The salary that you would earn working full-time at the gift shop


The cost of tuition for the nursing degree


Cost of things like transportation and books for the nursing degree


The additional salary that you'll earn once you finish your degree

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
The salary that you would earn working full-time at the gift shop.

Explanation: opportunity cost is the next-best alternative you give up — here it's the income you'd forgo by not taking the full-time gift-shop job.