Which of the Following Events Would Be Considered an Extraordinary

question 46

Multiple Choice

Which of the following events would be considered an extraordinary item?

• A) An airline experienced a significant loss due to a strike by employees of the company who provide its aircraft maintenance.
• B) A food cannery was faced with a large loss of inventory of canned soups due to government condemnation because of possible botulism contamination; the company had never experienced a similar situation in its history.
• C) A company, located on an island which has experienced severe flooding three times in the past 25 years, was subjected to a heavy loss of physical plant due to flooding.
• D) A medical corporation was required to pay a patient damages equal to three times its average net income. The corporation had experienced suits of this nature in the past, but the amount of the losses had never exceeded 5 percent of the corporation's average net income.

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Definitions:

Psychophysics Term

Relates to the study of the relationship between physical stimuli and the sensations and perceptions they produce.

Absolute Difference

A measure of the total amount of difference between two quantities or numbers.

Weber Fraction

A principle in psychophysics quantifying the perception of change in a given stimulus relative to its initial level, often used in detecting differences in intensity.

Grapheme-colour Synesthesia

A form of synesthesia in which an individual's perception of numbers and letters is automatically and involuntarily associated with colors.