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Opportunity Cost - The Real Price of Every Decision

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Maya Chen's wage-table math has students find the dollar and hour cost of skipping a $16 shift, split an SAT class's explicit and implicit costs, then weigh one more shift against rest and homework before a cost-benefit memo.

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