💼 Business
A company brings in $500,000 in sales but spends $400,000 operating. What is the remaining $100,000 generally called?
Profit
A factory wants to make the same product thousands of times as quickly and consistently as possible. What type of system would engineers commonly use?
Automation / automated manufacturing
A patient is having trouble breathing. Doctors measure a percentage showing how much oxygen their blood is carrying. What is this called?
Oxygen saturation / oxygen level
Your phone recognizes your face before unlocking. What type of technology is it using?
Facial recognition / biometrics
In court, a witness promises to tell the truth before answering questions. What is this promise called?
An oath / being sworn in
If demand for a product increases while supply stays the same, what will generally happen to its price?
Increase
A machine repeatedly overheats while operating. Name one thing an engineer could add or improve to control its temperature.
Cooling system, fan, ventilation, coolant, heat sink, etc.
A doctor tells you to fast for 8 hours before a blood test. What does “fast” mean?
Do not eat, usually only water as instructed
Your phone says it has 256 GB of storage. What does that number describe?
How much data/files it can store
A lawyer says, “Objection” during a trial. Who decides whether that objection is accepted?
The judge
You invest $1,000 and later sell the investment for $1,250. What percentage return did you make?
25%
A company replaces workers who repeatedly weld the exact same parts with programmable robotic arms. Give one major reason for doing this.
Speed, consistency, precision, safety, productivity, etc.
Antibiotics can treat strep throat caused by bacteria, but normally won’t treat the common cold. Why?
Colds are usually caused by viruses
You delete an app from your phone, but your account and information are still available when you reinstall it. Where might that information have been stored?
The cloud / online servers
Someone is arrested for a crime but has not gone to trial yet. Are they legally considered guilty?
No, they are presumed innocent until proven guilty
A business sells 200 items for $25 each. Each item costs $15 to produce. Ignoring other expenses, what is the total gross profit?
$2,000
An engineer creates a prototype, tests it, discovers a problem, changes the design, and tests it again. What is this repeated process generally called?
Iteration / iterative design
A patient has a broken bone, but the doctor wants to see it without surgery. What common type of medical imaging would most likely be used first?
X-ray
A password like John2005 is easier to crack than a long, random password. What makes the longer password generally more secure?
More possible combinations / complexity
Two people disagree over money from a contract and one sues the other. Is this most likely a criminal or civil case?
Civil
A company has fixed costs of $20,000. It makes $20 profit on each product sold. How many products must it sell to break even?
1,000
A manufacturer discovers that 1 out of every 20 products coming off a production line is defective. What percentage of its products are defective?
5%
A patient can speak and breathe, but food repeatedly enters the airway when they try to eat. What basic body function are they having difficulty with?
Swallowing
A company keeps a second copy of all its important files in another location in case its computers are destroyed. What is this second copy called?
A backup
A person is found “ not guilty “ in a criminal trial. Can the prosecution normally keep retrying that person for the exact same offense until they get a guilty verdict?
No, because of double jeopardy