Question

Scenario 13-6 Ziva is an organic lettuce farmer, but she also spends part of her day as a professional organizing consultant. As a consultant, Ziva helps people organize their houses. Due to the popularity of her home-organization services, Farmer Ziva has more clients requesting her services than she has time to help if she maintains her farming business. Farmer Ziva charges $25 an hour for her home-organization services. One spring day, Ziva spends 10 hours in her fields planting $130 worth of seeds on her farm. She expects that the seeds she planted will yield $300 worth of lettuce Refer to Scenario 13-6. An economist would calculate Ziva's total cost of farming to equal _____________.A. $300B. $250C. $130 D. $380

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer is:

$380 (D.)

Explanation:

The cost of production of a good or service is the amount used up or forfeited in the production of the good or service. In this scenario, from Ziva used 10 hours for farming and because she dedicated 10 hours, if she had been available for her consultancy service which paid her $25 per hour, she would have earned a total of $250 at the end of the 10 hours she used in farming. In addition, she also spend $130 on the seed that she used for planting, which is the direct cost of farming (production). Hence the total amount given up in the farming process will make up the total cost of farming, and this includes; the $250 given up for consultancy, and the $130 spent on seeds, hence, the total cost of production is;

= 250 + 130 = $380