Choose the Appropriate Letter or Letters to Identify the Pattern

question 3

Multiple Choice

Choose the appropriate letter or letters to identify the pattern or patterns in each reading. Most businesses can be classified according to one of three main legal structures: sole proprietorship, partnership, or corporation.Almost three-fourths of American businesses are sole proprietorships, very small companies with only one owner and few employees.Many retail, service, and agricultural businesses, for example, are sole proprietorships.About 7 percent of businesses are partnerships.These tend to be relatively small companies with two or more owners.Many accounting, law, and advertising firms are organized as partnerships.Corporations comprise about 19 percent of all businesses.A corporation is usually a mid- to large-sized company that sells shares of ownership to stockholders, or investors.General Motors, Walmart stores, and Procter & Gamble are among some of America's largest corporations.

• A) definition
• B) classification
• C) time order: process
• D) time order: sequence of dates and events
• E) comparison and contrast
• F) cause and effect
• G) simple listing

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Definitions:

Cue-dependent Forgetting

The failure to recall information in the absence of specific cues or conditions that were present at the time of memory encoding.

Decay

The process through which information is lost over time when it is not used or rehearsed.

Proactive Interference

A phenomenon where older information prevents the recall of newer information, impacting memory retention.

Retroactive Interference

A memory phenomenon where newly learned information interferes with the recall of previously learned information.