Oliver Plans to Give an Informative Presentation on How a New

question 23

Multiple Choice

Oliver plans to give an informative presentation on how a new state law will affect the way his company stores records. He knows that his listeners will quickly grow bored if he spends a lot of time discussing background information on the law. What should Oliver do?

• A) He should open with background information to get it out of the way.
• B) He should organize his presentation chronologically.
• C) He should use the direct structure for his presentation.
• D) He should use cause-and-effect organization.
• E) He should use the spatial pattern of organization.

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The central value of a set of numbers, calculated by dividing the sum of all numbers by the count of those numbers.

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Average Number

The average number represents the central value or the arithmetic mean obtained by dividing the sum of a set of numbers by the count of numbers in the set.