Application of Skills Directions

question 8

Multiple Choice

Application of Skills Directions:
Read the following excerpt adapted from Dianne Hales' textbook, An Invitation to Health: Choosing to Change (p. 319) . Apply the knowledge you have gained from Chapter 14 to select the best answer for the following questions.
How Infections Spread
​¹ Food and water are two major means of transmission for infectious disease. ²Every year foodborne illnesses strike millions of Americans and sometimes even cause death. ³Bacteria account for two-thirds of foodborne infections, and thousands of suspected cases of infection with Escherichia coli bacteria in undercooked food have been reported. ⁴Every year as many as 4 million Americans have a bout with Salmonella bacteria because of tainted poultry sold in the United States. ⁵Waterborne diseases, such as typhoid fever and cholera, are widespread in less developed areas of the world, but they have been rare in the United States, although outbreaks caused by inadequate water purification have occurred.
Which sentence is a simple sentence with a compound verb?​

• A) ​sentence 1
• B) ​sentence 2
• C) ​sentence 3
• D) ​sentence 4

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Definitions:

Returns To Scale

A term in economics that describes how the change in the amount of input affects the change in output of a production process.

Production Function

Describes the relationship between the quantities of inputs used in production and the quantity of output produced, illustrating how input changes affect output.

Returns To Scale

Refers to how the output of a production process changes as all input quantities are scaled up or down.

Marginal Products

The additional output that is produced by employing one more unit of a specific input, while keeping other inputs constant.