Present three examples that illustrate how all decisions involve trade-offs

All decisions involve trade-offs. Trade offs are the alternatives one gives up whenever one chooses one course of action leaving out out all other alternative courses of action.

Trade-offs are practically found in all economic decisions. For instance, when one chooses to take a special cup of cappuccino for $330, this excludes spending this amount of cash on tea or fruit juice. When you choose to buy an expensive piece of art, you will have to spend more money towards maintenance and security of the painting. If you decide to work in a far-off city due to better pay there, you spend less time with family and friends in your hometown.

It is probably safe to say that most if not all decisions involve trade-offs. For example a person may be offered a job that pays well but requires 7 days per week for a month and while this is good for a younger person with no other commitments it may not work for an older person with his own family commitments and other projects. Another decision could be that for support, a husband decides to not take on major time consuming projects while his wife is doing intensive studying to become certified in a field of her choosing so that he can support her. Another example is that when one cannot drive one's son with a disability to a beach to swim because it is too far and uses too much car gas, the money saved on gas some of it could be spent on his groceries.