Mark and Sarah Are Two Eighth-Grade Students Who Have Just

question 35

Multiple Choice

Mark and Sarah are two eighth-grade students who have just failed a math test. Considering gender differences in students' explanations for failure, how are the two students likely to explain their poor test performance?

• A)Mark will think that he failed because he "just can't do math." Sarah will think, "I got an F because I didn't work hard enough on this subject-I could have studied more."
• B)Mark will attribute his failure to a lack of effort, thinking, "I didn't study very hard because I don't need to get good grades." Sarah will think, "I'm just not very good at math."
• C)Mark will think that he isn't very lucky when it comes to tests, and Sarah will think that she failed because she didn't have her friends help her study.
• D)Mark will think, "I got an F because I'm not smart enough to do this math." Sarah will think, "I failed because the teacher hates me and the test wasn't fair."

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Understand the production decisions based on marginal revenue product and product price.

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