Why Is a Written Schedule Important

question 3

Multiple Choice

Why is a written schedule important?

• A)Schedules keep you from being late for your appointments.
• B)Schedules allocate segments of time to fulfill your goals and remind you of events,responsibilities,appointments,and deadlines.
• C)Schedules make you feel important because you're filling your day with important tasks.
• D)none of the above

Distinguish between valid forms of arguments and the impact of having negative premises and affirmative conclusions.

Understand the factors contributing to infant mortality and how it can be reduced.

Recognize the importance of prenatal care in reducing risks of low birth weight.

Understand the causes and prevention strategies for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).

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Definitions:

Implicit Cost

The monetary income a firm sacrifices when it uses a resource it owns rather than supplying the resource in the market; equal to what the resource could have earned in the best-paying alternative employment; includes a normal profit.

Law of Diminishing Returns

The economic principle stating that as one input variable is increased, there is a point at which the marginal gain in output begins to decrease, holding all other inputs constant.

Diseconomies of Scale

Diseconomies of scale occur when a firm's costs per unit increase as the scale of its output increases, often due to inefficiencies that arise from managing a larger organization.

Average Fixed Costs

Costs that do not change with the level of output and are spread over the units of output, thus decreasing per unit as production increases.