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Calculating economic profit

Assume that you earn an annual salary of $25,000. You too have $10,000 in savings which earns $1,000 per year in interest. Now assume that you quit this job to open your own business and spend all your savings in the latest business. In the primary year, you take in revenues of $40,000 and make payments of $20,000 to cover explicit costs. Your economic profit in very first year is: (i) $20,000. (ii) -$16,000. (iii) -$15,000. (iv) -$5,000. (v) -$6,000.

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