As a Contestant of the Amazing Race, Mary Was Required

question 3

Multiple Choice

As a contestant of The Amazing Race, Mary was required to eat fish eyeballs when visiting China. Although the eyeballs are a common snack, Mary, an American woman, could barely swallow the eyeballs without spitting them out and gagging. Mary is having a(n) __________ reaction to eating the Chinese snack.

• A) spurious
• B) ethnocidal
• C) culturally relative
• D) ethnocentric

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Definitions:

Quarterly Compounded Nominal Rate

A nominal interest rate compounded four times a year.

Effective Rate

The annual interest rate that accounts for compounding within the year.

Compounded Annually

The process where interest earned is added to the principal sum once a year, and future interest is earned on the new total.

Compounded Nominal Annual Rate

The rate of interest for one year, without taking inflation into account, which is compounded at specified intervals within that year.