A Researcher Is Moving to an Area with a Year-Round

question 3

Multiple Choice

A researcher is moving to an area with a year-round cold climate. The researcher asks the health care professional how people in these areas are able to adjust to the temperature. What response by the professional is most accurate?

• A)They have less adipose tissue.
• B)They have more beige (bAT) adipose tissue.
• C)Their bone marrow produces more adipose tissue.
• D)They gain weight which insulates them.

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Definitions:

Direct Materials Cost

The expense associated with the raw materials directly used in the production of a product.

Cost Behavior Classifications

The categorization of costs based on how they change in relation to changes in a company’s level of activity or volume.

Activity Base

A measure upon which the allocation of costs is based in activity-based costing, often relating to a metric that causes costs to occur such as machine hours or labor hours.

Cost Behavior

The way in which costs change in relation to variations in an organization’s activity level.