Frank owns an apple farm and plans to spend 4 hours today picking apples. The number of apples he can pick per hour depends on the total number of hours he spends working in either the east orchard or the west orchard in the manner shown in the table below. What is the opportunity cost to Frank of spending an additional hour picking apples in the East orchard?

Question

Frank owns an apple farm and plans to spend 4 hours today picking apples. The number of apples he can pick per hour depends on the total number of hours he spends working in either the east orchard or the west orchard in the manner shown in the table below.  What is the opportunity cost to Frank of spending an additional hour picking apples in the East orchard?

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If Frank spends an additional hour in the east orchard, he has to spend 1 less hour in the west orchard, during which time he could have picked 10 apples.

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