What Is the Purpose of a Filter? Give Examples of When

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Essay

What is the purpose of a filter? Give examples of when a filter would be useful. When would you want to use a filter to display certain records instead of a query? When might you need to use a type of filter other than an AutoFilter? Give an example.

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Definitions:

Alcoa Case

A 1945 case in which the courts ruled that the possession of monopoly power, no matter how reasonably that power had been used, was a violation of the antitrust laws; temporarily overturned the rule of reason applied in the U.S. Steel case.

Monopoly Structure

A market form where a single firm controls the entire market for a product or service, with no close substitutes.

Treble Damages

A legal principle allowing a court to triple the amount of the actual/compensatory damages to be awarded to a plaintiff.

Four-Firm Concentration

A measure of market concentration that evaluates the total market share of the four largest firms within an industry.