Your Intern Forwards a Message to You About a New

question 52

Multiple Choice

Your intern forwards a message to you about a new computer virus that you discover is a hoax from a reliable source.What should you do?

• A)Reply to the email message and tell the intern he is irresponsible for believing virus hoaxes.
• B)Reply to the message and tell him that you have discovered the virus is a hoax.Also send him the web address for the hoax information.
• C)Ignore the message.
• D)Forward the message to your supervisor, telling her that the intern is violating company policy about forwarding hoax messages.

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Definitions:

Economies of Scale

The cost advantages that enterprises obtain due to their scale of operation, with cost per unit of output generally decreasing with increasing scale as fixed costs are spread out over more units of output.

Unit Costs of Production

The total expense incurred by a company to produce, store, and sell one unit of a particular product or service.

Diseconomies of Scale

The condition in which a firm’s costs per unit of output increase as the firm increases in size or scale of operation.