After Watching the 30-Minute Infomercial on Oxy-Clean, Sarah Was Certain

question 228

Multiple Choice

After watching the 30-minute infomercial on Oxy-Clean, Sarah was certain the cleaning product would remove the grape juice stain from her white carpet. In terms of the communication process, Sarah was ________ the message from Oxy-Clean.

• A) integrating
• B) transforming
• C) translating
• D) decoding
• E) encoding

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Definitions:

Output

Refers to the total amount of goods or services produced by an entity in a given period.

Production Function

A mathematical relationship that describes the maximum amount of output that can be produced from a given set of inputs under certain technology.

Returns To Scale

The rate at which production output increases as a result of a proportional increase in all inputs or resources.

Marginal Product

The increase in output resulting from a one-unit increase in the input, keeping all other inputs constant.