Answer is "a"- you must account for the opportunity cost associated with using your car to make deliveries calculating your economic profit.
Explanation: since it is a kind of implicit cost ( the cost which is not actually paid by the revenue earner) that needs to deducted from total revenue in case to figure out the economic profit.
Economic profit = Total revenue - (explicit cost + implicit cost).
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