Which of the Following Describes What Has Occurred in International

question 45

Multiple Choice

Which of the following describes what has occurred in international business from 1960-2000?

• A) Although still increasing,international trade has grown at a slower rate since 1980.
• B) The volume of international trade increased more than 3000 percent.
• C) U.S.investment overseas has been on the decline for the past two decades.
• D) The majority of the world's largest firms are firms with headquarters inside the United States.
• E) All U.S.firms still earn the majority of their sales and profits in the United States.

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Definitions:

75th Percentile

A value below which 75% of the data points in a dataset fall, used as a measure of dispersion.

Symmetric Data

Data that are evenly distributed around the center, showing mirror-image properties on both sides of the median.

Interquartile Range

The difference between the 75th (third quartile) and 25th (first quartile) percentiles, measuring the spread of the middle 50% of data.

Coefficient of Variation

A standardized measure of dispersion of a probability distribution or frequency distribution, expressed as a ratio of the standard deviation to the mean.