What Development Has Helped to Narrow the Digital Divide

question 18

Multiple Choice

What development has helped to narrow the digital divide?

• A)the introduction of laptops with long battery lives
• B)widespread access to electricity
• C)the spread of the use of "smart" mobile phones
• D)the social philanthropy of technology billionaires,who are building the necessary infrastructure in the Global South

Differentiate between explicit costs, implicit costs, and the importance of including both in economic cost calculations.

Understand the relationships between total product, marginal product, average product, and their implications for production decisions.

Recognize the principle of economies of scale, diseconomies of scale, and the concept of minimum efficient scale.

Learn about the law of diminishing returns and its assumptions.

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Definitions:

Gastropods

A large class of mollusks that include snails and slugs, characterized by a single shell (though some are shell-less) and a muscular foot for locomotion.

Ingest Food

The act of consuming food by mouth, initiating the process of digestion.

Sexual Reproduction

A biological process where two cells from different individuals unite to produce the first cell of a new organism.

Embryo Development

The process by which an embryo forms and develops, from fertilization to the fetus stage.