3. Opportunity Cost Poornima and Valerie are roommates. They spend most of their time studying (of course), but they leave some time for their favorite activities: making pizza and brewing root beer. Poornima takes 3 hours to brew a gallon of root beer and 2 hours to make a pizza. Valerie takes 7 hours to brew a gallon of root beer and 5 hours to make a pizza. Poornima's opportunity cost of brewing a gallon of root beer is V , and Valerie's opportunity cost of brewing a gallon of root beer is v. V has an absolute advantage in brewing root beer, and V has a comparative advantage in brewing root beer. If Poornima and Valerie trade foods with each other, V will trade pizza in exchange for root beer. The price of pizza can be expressed in terms of gallons of root beer. The highest price at which pizza can be traded that would make both roommates better off is V of root beer, and the lowest price that makes both roommates better off is V of root beer per pizza