Question

A landfill site produces an obnoxious odor. Homes downwind of the site rent for $1000 per month while homes upwind of the site rent for $1500 per month. If the odor is the only detectable difference between two neighborhoods, the difference in the rent is the ________ of the odor. Group of answer choices

Answer 1

External cost

Step-by-step explanation:

External cost is a cost that is gotten from any economic transaction, in which the person or entity bearing the cost is not directly involved in. They are also known as spill over costs. The offensive odor in the question has generated an external cost at different locations from the site, the cost of rent differs. External costs usually have negative effects, from our question we can see that the odor from the landfill site must be intolerable for people residing in the area.