It Is NOT Illegal, Under the Americans with Disabilities Act

question 45

Multiple Choice

It is NOT illegal, under the Americans with Disabilities Act, to ask a potential employee which of the following questions:

• A) do you have AIDS?
• B) have you ever been treated for mental health problems?
• C) have you ever been treated for drug addiction?
• D) have you ever held a position like this before?
• E) all of the other specific choices are illegal

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Definitions:

Nonconvex Preferences

Preferences where an individual values mixtures of goods or services less than pure bundles, violating the convexity assumption in utility theory.

Perfect Substitutes

Goods or services that can be used in place of each other with no loss of utility to the consumer.

Monotonic Transformation

A mathematical operation applied to a function that preserves the order of the data.

Utility Function

An equation that calculates the total utility a consumer gains from consuming a certain quantity of goods and services.