Congestive Heart Failure Is

question 56

Multiple Choice

Congestive heart failure is

• A) sustained abnormally high blood pressure.
• B) thickening of artery walls by deposits of fatty substances.
• C) a condition caused by the heart's inability to maintain its regular pumping force.
• D) severe chest pain caused by insufficient blood supply to the heart.

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Definitions:

Positive Externality

An economic situation where a third party benefits from a transaction or activity they are not directly involved in.

Negative Externality

A cost suffered by a third party due to an economic transaction or activity, without compensation, such as pollution from a factory affecting nearby residents.

Public Goods

Goods that are non-excludable and non-rivalrous, meaning that one person's consumption does not reduce the availability to others, and it's hard to prevent people from using them.

Nonrivalry-in-Consumption

A characteristic of certain goods where one person's consumption does not reduce the availability of the good for consumption by others.