Assess an Athlete's Carbohydrate Intake and Determine If It Meets

question 10

Essay

Assess an athlete's carbohydrate intake and determine if it meets guidelines for performance and health.

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Definitions:

Diseconomies of Scale

The situation in which a business grows to a point where the costs per unit increase, opposed to saving costs, often due to managerial inefficiencies or complexity.

Constant Returns to Scale

A situation in which increasing the amount of all inputs used in production by a certain factor results in output increasing by the same factor.

Economies of Scale

Cost advantages that enterprises obtain due to their size, output, or scale of operation, with cost per unit of output generally decreasing with increasing scale.

Diseconomies of Scale

A condition when a company or business grows so large that the costs per unit increase, leading to reduced efficiency.