Imagine Your University Wished to Increase Racial Diversity Among the Student

question 10

Multiple Choice

Imagine your university wished to increase racial diversity among the student body. Which of the following policies best reflects the current constitutional status of affirmative action policies according to Supreme Court rulings?

• A)Your university may reserve 10 percent of new admissions for racial minorities.
• B)Your university scores new applicants on a 100-point scale, and racial minorities automatically receive 15 points.
• C)Race cannot be used as a factor in admissions decisions, even to promote diversity.
• D)Your university may consider race as a factor in admissions decisions as part of a holistic review of each new applicant's file but may not use quotas or automatically award extra points to racial minorities.

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Definitions:

Average Variable Cost

The variable cost per unit of output.

Average Variable Cost

The variable costs associated with production, when divided by the number of units produced, indicate the cost per unit.

Marginal Cost

The cost of producing one additional unit of a good or service, an important concept in economics for determining the optimal level of production.

Average Total Cost

The total cost to produce a given quantity of output divided by the quantity of output produced; it includes all opportunity costs.