The Table Below Shows How Total Donations, Average Donations, Total

question 55

Multiple Choice

The table below shows how total donations, average donations, total labor costs and average labor costs vary depending on the number of employees State U hires for its fundraising activities. The Chair of the Economics Department at State U says that fundraising employees should be hired as long as their marginal benefit exceeds their marginal cost. If the University follows this advice, then ______ employee(s) will hired, and the net benefit (total donations minus total labor costs) will be ______.

• A) 1; $22,000
• B) 2; $25,426
• C) 3; $25,426
• D) 2; $3,476

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Definitions:

Hybrid Inviability

A postzygotic reproductive isolating mechanism in which the embryonic development of an interspecific hybrid is aborted.

Mutation

A change in the DNA sequence within an organism's gene or chromosome, leading to variations in trait expression and possibly to different phenotypes.

Habitat Isolation

A type of prezygotic barrier where two species that could interbreed do not, because they inhabit different habitats and rarely encounter each other.

Environmental Isolation

The separation of population groups by physical barriers or distances, leading to genetic divergence and potentially speciation.