You Are a Reporter for Your College Newspaper and Planning

question 11

Essay

You are a reporter for your college newspaper and planning ahead for some columns for a weekly Internet column. The only questions you ever get are about one or two search engines and your experience tells you that few of your fellow students know anything about subject guides. You decide to make notes about what you would like to cover. Record the basic information you want to cover when you write about distributed subject guides.

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Definitions:

Extra Inputs

Additional resources or factors of production, such as labor or materials, that are used to increase output or efficiency.

Bottleneck

A point of congestion or blockage in a system, process, or production line that significantly delays or prevents progress.

Fixity of Production

The characteristic of production processes where inputs and outputs are fixed in the short term, allowing little flexibility.

Average Costs

is the total costs divided by the quantity produced, used to determine the cost of producing one unit of goods or services.