While Watching Her Dad Cook Bacon in the Microwave,10-Year-Old Abby

question 69

Multiple Choice

While watching her dad cook bacon in the microwave,10-year-old Abby Fleck asked,"Wouldn't it be less messy if you hung the bacon to cook?" After breakfast,she and her dad went to the basement and created the Makin Bacon,a gadget for making bacon cooking less messy.Abby,her parents,and her grandparents own and operate a company that makes and sells Makin Bacon trays.Her first big customer was Armour Bacon,which purchased the gadget to sell as a premium on its packages of bacon.This is a small business that has contributed by its

• A) innovation and its importance to a big company.
• B) financial performance and impact on its external environment.
• C) innovation and its impact on the internal environment of Armour.
• D) job creation,innovation,and importance to big business as a whole.
• E) job creation and innovation.

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Definitions:

Computer-aided Design (CAD)

The use of computer systems to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design.

Manufacturing Equipment

Tools, machinery, and other durable equipment used in the process of transforming raw materials into finished products.

Physical Models

Physical models are tangible representations that mimic the properties, behaviors, or functions of real-world objects or systems.

Prototypes

Early sample, model, or release of a product built to test a concept or process, serving as a thing to be replicated or learned from.