Use the Following to Answer the Beekeeping Questions Below

question 89

Multiple Choice

Use the following to answer the beekeeping questions below.
A math major turned hipster-beekeeper has determined that his profit is governed by the equation 5x - 40, where x represents the number of hives he sets up for the honey season.
-In the hipster-beekeeper's equation, 5 represents the:

• A) variable cost.
• B) fixed cost.
• C) sales price.
• D) per hive profit.

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Definitions:

Olfactory Bulb

Ganglion-like enlargement at the rostral end of the olfactory tract that lies over the cribriform plate; receives the olfactory nerves from the nasal cavity.

Olfactory Tract

Nerve tract that projects from the olfactory bulb to the olfactory cortex.

Transmembranous Receptor

Proteins spanning across the membrane of cells that receive chemical signals from outside the cell and initiate a response within the cell.

Odorant

A substance that is capable of producing a smell, often detected by the olfactory system.