This Figure Displays the Choices Being Made by Two Coffee

question 114

Multiple Choice

This figure displays the choices being made by two coffee shops: Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts.Both companies are trying to decide whether or not to expand in an area.The area can handle only one of them expanding,and whoever expands will cause the other to lose some business.If they both expand,the market will be saturated,and neither company will do well.The payoffs are the additional profits (or losses) they will earn.
The outcome of the game in the figure shown will be:

• A) Starbucks will expand and Dunkin Donuts will not.
• B) Starbucks will not expand and Dunkin Donuts will.
• C) Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts will both expand.
• D) neither Starbucks nor Dunkin Donuts will expand.

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Definitions:

Action Potentials

Electrical impulses that travel along neurons, allowing them to communicate with each other and with other types of cells.

Terminal Buttons

The small knobs at the end of an axon that release chemical signals from the neuron into the synapse to stimulate the next neuron.

Stimulation

The activity of promoting or encouraging a physical or biological response through external or internal factors.

All-or-none

A principle stating that the strength of a response of a nerve cell or muscle fiber is not dependent on the strength of the stimulus. If a stimulus is above a certain threshold, a nerve or muscle fiber will fire.