A Hewlett-Packard Sales Rep Is Making a Presentation About a New

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Multiple Choice

A Hewlett-Packard sales rep is making a presentation about a new printer product to a group of purchasing agents when one of the agents withdraws to read a text message. In the traditional communication model, the text-reading is the:

• A) Source.
• B) Receiver.
• C) Noise.
• D) Decoding.
• E) Encoding.

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