A Percentage Yield Greater Than 100% Has Been Reported in a Scientific

question 30

Multiple Choice

A percentage yield greater than 100% has been reported in a scientific paper you are assigned to read. What would be a reasonable explanation for this?

• A)A lack of training of the professor who published the study.
• B)The product was measured more than once.
• C)Small measurement errors could have caused this to occur.
• D)It must be a typographical error since yields can't exceed 100%.

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Definitions:

Output

Refers to the total amount of goods or services produced by an entity in a given period.

Production Function

A mathematical relationship that describes the maximum amount of output that can be produced from a given set of inputs under certain technology.

Returns To Scale

The rate at which production output increases as a result of a proportional increase in all inputs or resources.

Marginal Product

The increase in output resulting from a one-unit increase in the input, keeping all other inputs constant.