How Should You Describe Your Problem in an Indirect Claim

question 24

Multiple Choice

How should you describe your problem in an indirect claim message?

• A) The words describing the problem should express disinterest in a continued relationship.
• B) The words describing the problem should be blunt and negative.
• C) The words describing the problem should provoke the reader into reacting.
• D) The words describing the problem should be courteous yet firm.
• E) The words describing the problem should focus on your feelings.

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Definitions:

Normally Distributed

Describes a probability distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.

Starting Salaries

The initial amount of money that an employee earns annually when beginning a new job.

Standard Deviation

A system for evaluating the degree of dispersion or deviation among a collection of statistics.

Normally Distributed

A type of distribution in which data is symmetrically distributed with most of the observations clustering around the central peak and the probabilities for values further away from the mean tapering off equally on both sides.