Analytical Question

1. Typically, the entrepreneur is seen as an individual who owns and operates a small business. But simply to own and operate a small business- or ever a big business-dose not make someone an entrepreneur. If this person is a true entrepreneur, then new products are being created and new ways of providing services are being implemented . Which of the following conclusions can best be drawn from the above passage ?

a. An owner of a large business may be an entrepreneur.

b. Someone who develops an enterprise may be considered an entrepreneur.

c. Entrepreneurs do not own and operate small businesses.

d. Entrepreneurs are main actors in economic growth.

2. In the decade there has been significant decrease in coffee consumption.During this same time, there has been increasing publicity about the caffeine in coffee's adverse long term effects on health. Therefore, the decrease in coffee consumption must have been caused by consumer's awareness of the harmful caffeine. Which of the following, if true,most seriously calls into question the explanation above ?

a. On average,people consume 30% less coffee today than they did 10 years ago

b. Sales of specialty types of coffee have held steady as sales of regular brands have declined

c. The consumption of fruit juice and caffeine-free herbal tea has increased over the decade

d. Coffee prices increased steadily in the past decade because of unusually severs frosts in coffee-growing nation's.