Which of the Following Is an Example of Basic Research

question 18

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of basic research?

• A) conducting animal testing to determine if a product contains irritants
• B) soft drink bottlers testing consumer reactions to their advertisements
• C) a statistician calculating the odds of winning a promotional sweepstakes that a company is running
• D) a catalog sales company timing its operators to see how many calls each is handling per day
• E) a chemist building a mathematical model of the atmosphere of Jupiter

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