Which of the Following Statements About Sustainable Development Is Most

question 75

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about sustainable development is most accurate?

• A) A company that makes its furniture from rare tropical woods is practicing sustainable development.
• B) Currently, sustainable development is a luxury that only large multinational companies can engage in.
• C) Sustainable development is achieved when a firm's sales growth rate increases an average of 1 to 2 percent a year for a period of at least five years.
• D) A mining company that replants native vegetation after mining operations cease practices sustainable development.
• E) Unfortunately, only a small number of consumers care whether a company practices sustainable development.

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Definitions:

Probability

The measure or quantification of how likely an event is to occur, expressed as a number between 0 (impossible) and 1 (certain).

NORM.DIST

A function in statistics that returns the normal distribution for a specified mean and standard deviation.

Standard Error

The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic, often used to estimate the precision of a sample mean.

Population Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion of a set of data values from their mean, calculated for the entire population.