Ashley Has Average Technical Skills but Her Real Strengths Lay

question 75

Multiple Choice

Ashley has average technical skills but her real strengths lay in visualizing the benefits of other's ideas and in finding financial and political support for these ideas. Ashley is an excellent example of a(n) _____.

• A) critic.
• B) sponsor.
• C) idea champion.
• D) inventor.
• E) bureaucrat.

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Definitions:

Profit

The financial gain obtained when the amount earned from a business activity exceeds the expenses, costs, and taxes involved in sustaining the activity.

Good

A tangible product or commodity that satisfies human wants or needs.

Resources

An input used to produce economic goods. Land, labor, skills, natural resources, and human-made tools and equipment provide examples. Throughout history, people have struggled to transform available, but limited, resources into things they would like to have—economic goods.

Demand Falls

This occurs when there is a decrease in the desire or willingness of consumers to purchase a good at a given price, leading to potential shifts in the market equilibrium.