Case-Based Critical Thinking Questions

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Multiple Choice

Case-Based Critical Thinking Questions
Case 9-1
Christian is having a lot of problems with errors in a very complicated spreadsheet that he inherited from a colleague,and he turns to another co-worker,Sebastian,for tips in how to trace errors in the sheet.
-Sebastian tells Christian to search all of the error values until he reaches one that lacks something,and that is the source of the error values in the dependent cells.What does that error value lack?

• A) contingencies
• B) dependencies
• C) antecedents
• D) precedents

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