Dispersion of a Business Cycle Refers To

question 47

Multiple Choice

Dispersion of a business cycle refers to:

• A) the length of time from one business cycle peak to the next.
• B) how low a trough or how high a peak of a business cycle is.
• C) which segments of the economy are affected by a recession in a business cycle.
• D) whether the bottom of the cycle is a depression.
• E) how large a cross section of businesses exit their industry.

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Definitions:

Tapeworms

Parasitic flatworms that live in the digestive tracts of vertebrates, absorbing nutrients from the host's intestine.

Choanoflagellates

A collective of independent, single-celled and colonial flagellated eukaryotic organisms regarded as the nearest living kin to animals.

Segmentation

The division of a body into repetitive sections or segments; a characteristic of many animals, including annelids and arthropods.

Heteroplasy

The occurrence of similar traits or features in species that aren't closely related, due to convergent evolution or other processes, rather than common ancestry.