The Advantage of Using Diagnostic Criteria to Determine Who Is

question 13

Multiple Choice

The advantage of using diagnostic criteria to determine who is eligible for a particular program is:

• A) Resources are focused on those who are least able to pay.
• B) The program is limited to the people who seem to have the most serious problems
• C) The applicants are decided upon by the staff.
• D) The agency can decide who is eligible.

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Definitions:

Retention Ratio

The proportion of earnings that is not distributed as dividends to shareholders, but is retained by the company for reinvestment.

Cash Dividends

Distributions of profits from a corporation to its shareholders as payments.

Selling and Administrative Expenses

Indirect costs not directly tied to product production, including marketing, management, rent, and utilities.

Significance Level

A threshold in statistical hypothesis testing that determines the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is actually true.