Which of the following sentences is an example of mixed construction?
A. Students should choose their majors after carefully considering their areas of
interest.
B. The team and the cheerleaders are on the field.
C. The customer is allowed to return the product but you are allowed to do so only
within the warranty period.
D. John and his wife Jane visit us regularly.
E. Everyone in the class bought tickets for the show.
One powerful but rarely used source of business ideas are:
A. family and friends.
B. work experiences.
C. existing customers.
D. government agencies.
Which of the following sentences avoids the use of cluttering phrases?
A. This campaign was conducted for the purpose of informing people about the
product.
B. The president declared the budget for the project was in the neighborhood of $20
million.
C. It is annoying when someone does not listen to your cautions and makes mistakes.
D. During the present time, I shall complete these reports.
E. In view of the fact that this will be the last meeting for this quarter, the chairperson
will announce thesalary hikes for the employees.
Who among the following is associated with contributions to quality control in
operations management?
A) Charles Babbage
B) Henry Ford
C) Frank Gilbreth
D) W. Edwards Deming
E) Henri Fayol
A foundry produces circular utility access hatches (manhole covers). If 120 covers are
produced in a 10-hour shift, the productivity of the line is
A) 1.2 covers/hr
B) 2 covers/hr
C) 12 covers/hr
D) 1200 covers/hr
E) none of the above
_____ is a process of producing an idea or opportunity that is novel and useful,
frequently derived from making connections among distinct ideas or opportunities.
A. Prototyping
B. Creativity
C. Benchmarking
D. Incubation
Which of the following is an entrepreneur most likely to implement to introduce
changeability into a core business?
A. Redesign the work environment
B. Increase the IP protection on the products or services
C. Simply sell the products or services
D. Read journals related to the area of expertise
Which of the following is true about paragraph design?
A. Paragraphs should be longer than ten sentences for messages.
B. The topic sentence expresses the main idea of a paragraph.
C. One-line paragraphs fail toemphasize major points in business messages.
D. The most common paragraph arrangement begins with the supporting material
followed by the topic sentence.
The measure of how many visitors to a Web site actually make a purchase is known as:
A. illumination rate.
B. frame rate.
C. conversion rate.
D. pilot test.
Conversion rate is the measure of how many visitors to a Web site (or people who click
on an online advertisement) actually make a purchase.
An overall strategic approach in which the entrepreneur does more or less what others
are already doing refers to a(n):
A. imitative strategy.
B. innovative strategy.
C. incremental strategy.
D. radical innovation strategy.
Which of these sentences best meets the requirements of good business writing?
A. Lees payment in January was in the amount of $300.
B. Lee paid $300 in January.
C. Lees January payment was for $300.
D. Three hundred dollars was paid by Lee in January.
E. The $300 January payment was made by Lee.