Hans can do 4 loads of laundry per hour, and he can type 6 pages per hour. Maria can do 12 loads of laundry per hour, and she can type 8 pages per hour. Maria’s opportunity cost of doing one load of laundry is:

A. 4 pages.
B. 6 pages.
C. 2/3 of a page.
D. 3/2 of a page.
E. impossible to compute without additional information.

Answer: C. 2/3 of a page.

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