Sean Is Thinking About Creating an Automatic Cat Feeder Similar

question 39

Multiple Choice

Sean is thinking about creating an automatic cat feeder similar to one that he created for dogs.He talks to several cat owners to find out what they dislike about feeding their cats.He also takes a look at current cat feeders and asks the same cat owners what they like and don't like about the feeders.What is this action called?

• A)asking questions and a pilot study
• B)asking questions and hypothesis testing
• C)asking questions and background research
• D)asking questions and prototyping

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Definitions:

Square Feet

A unit of area measurement equivalent to the area of a square with sides of one foot in length.

Quasilinear Preferences

Preferences where utility is linear in one argument, usually money, allowing for easy analysis of changes in wealth while other goods are evaluated non-linearly.

Homothetic

Pertaining to a class of production functions or utility functions where equal proportionate changes in inputs result in equal proportionate changes in output.

Utility Function

An economic tool used to encode a consumer's preference orderings over a set of alternatives into a real-valued function. (Duplicate rephrase)