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Which of the following is an example of a process at an individual level?

Individuals scoring ________ have a strong ability to adjust their behavior to external, situational factors and can behave differently in different situations.

The risks best suited for funded retention are those in which the risk has: 

Tim owns a small landscaping company = Tim’s Trees & Shrubs. When a customer requests landscaping services, Tim sends his employees out in a company truck that is pulling a trailer that houses all of the landscaping tools, equipment, and machinery. Tim’s employees are very diligent, but maybe one or two times a year, an employee will be careless while backing the trailer into a customer’s yard and accidently damage the customer’s grass or other small shrubbery. Tim knows these are simply accidents: since they do not happen very often and usually only cost around $200-$300 to replace the damaged property. During the one or two times this occurs per year: Tim’s Trees & Shrubs will simply pay for the damage caused to customer’s property out of the company’s business bank account.  Which method of risk financing is Tim’s Trees & Shrubs practicing?  

There are several advantages if a firm chooses to engage in self-insured retention as opposed to engaging in a risk transfer (i.e. purchase insurance)  All of the following are advantages of self-insured retention as a risk financing technique – EXCEPT:   

Match each method of retention with its corresponding definition: 

One of the main disadvantages of self-insured retention as a risk financing technique is the possibility of sustaining a “catastrophic loss” > which the firm will be responsible for paying if they choose to engage in retention.  What is the key reason that the possibility of a catastrophic loss makes engaging in self-insured retention difficult, if not impossible? 

A female has the genotype of [answer1] and a male has the genotype of [answer2].

A three code sequence of RNA is called a:

A dominant trait will only show if there is a homozygous genotype.