A 58-Year-Old Woman Revealed That She Had Experimented with Intravenous

question 19

Multiple Choice

A 58-year-old woman revealed that she had experimented with intravenous drugs as a teenager.Is she an acceptable donor?

• A) She is an acceptable donor because testing will pick up evidence of hepatitis.
• B) She will need to be deferred for 12 months.
• C) She is an acceptable donor, if she has had the hepatitis B vaccine.
• D) She is deferred.

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Definitions:

Diminishing Marginal

A principle stating that as additional units of a variable input are added to a fixed input, the additional output produced from each new unit will eventually decline.

Indifference Curves

A graphical representation of different combinations of goods or services among which a consumer is indifferent, showing preferences and trade-offs.

Completeness

In the context of preferences, the assumption that any two bundles of goods can be compared, meaning a consumer can decide if one is preferred, the other is preferred, or they are valued equally.

Transitivity

The concept in decision theory and economics that if preference or choice A is preferred to B, and B is preferred to C, then A must be preferred to C.