What Best Explains the Increasing Power of the Vice President

question 48

Multiple Choice

What best explains the increasing power of the vice president over time?

• A) Decreasing judicial activism requires the vice president to make more speeches.
• B) Increasing staff and budgets have allowed vice presidents to take broader roles.
• C) Delivering the State of the Union address has increased the office's power.
• D) Shrinking staff of the EOP has caused the vice president to become stronger.
• E) Changes to the Eleventh Amendment allow the vice president more trust from the president.

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Definitions:

Total Asset Turnover

Total asset turnover measures how efficiently a company uses its assets to generate sales, calculated as sales divided by average total assets.

Inventory Turnover

A ratio indicating how many times a company's inventory is sold and replaced over a period, used to assess efficiency in managing and selling products.

Dividend Yield

An economic indicator revealing the yearly dividend payment of a company as a proportion of its share price.

Gross Margin Ratio

A profitability metric that measures the difference between revenue and the cost of goods sold (COGS), expressed as a percentage of revenue.