Students at a Major University Must Go Through Several Registration

question 30

Multiple Choice

Students at a major university must go through several registration steps. Officials have observed that it is typically the case that the waiting line at the fee-payment station is the longest. This would seem to suggest that the fee-payment station is the ___________ in the student registration process.

• A)capacity cushion
• B)first station
• C)bottleneck
• D)economy of scale
• E)diseconomy of scale

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