With Respect to Internet Use and Social Networking Sites, Adolescents

question 27

Multiple Choice

With respect to Internet use and social networking sites, adolescents are likely to

• A) communicate with people they have offline relationships with.
• B) spend most of their time engaged in negative interactions.
• C) spend time interacting with people their parents would not approve of.
• D) become obsessive, to the point of neglecting in-person relationships.

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Definitions:

Debt-Equity Ratio

A financial proportion indicating the use of debt versus equity in the capital structure for asset financing.

Cost of Equity

The return that investors require or expect to earn on their investment in a company's equity to compensate for the risk they undertake.

After-Tax Cost

The after-tax cost is the net cost of a transaction, investment, or other financial activity after taking into account the effect of taxes.

Debt-Equity Ratio

Measures a company's financial leverage calculated by dividing its total liabilities by stockholders' equity.