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3 years ago

What is the main difference between a personal characteristic and a skill ?

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Bess [88]3 years ago

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Answer:

Personal Characteristics are the inborn qualities in a person, where as Skills are learned over time.

Explanation:

The main difference between Personal Characteristics and Skills is that, Skills are learned and gained, whereas personal characteristics are not. Personal characteristics are merely the person's inborn qualities.

Personal characteristics may include, Honesty, Flexibility, Intelligence, Enthusiasm, Good sense of humor, Leadership, etc.

Skills may include, Ethics, Etiquette, Confidence, Interpersonal Skills, etc.

Arisa [49]3 years ago

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The main difference between a personal characteristic and a skill is its origin.

personal characteristics are inherent qualities within a person while skills are learned and developed by a person.

Personal characteristics include habitual patterns of behavior, temperament, and emotion while skills include talents like self-confidence, good attitude and good listening behavior which are necessary to carry out specific tasks.

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Option E

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As we can see, Germany is able to produce 40 tons of steel with the same inputs as that of South Korea.

In the same way, Germany is able to produce 10 personal computers with the same inputs as that of South Korea.

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Option E is correct

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1. Incremental analysis when the demand for the decorated umbrella is 10,000 units.

$\text{Particulars}$ $\text{Rosa umbrella}$ $\text{Decorated umbrella}$ $\text{Incremental}$

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$\text{Less: Variable cost}$ $ 45000 $120000 $75000

Contribution $35000 $70000 $35000

$\text{Less: Additional}$ --- $10000 $10000

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$\text{Differential profit}$ $35000 $60000 $25000

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$\text{Sales revenue}$ $80,000 $152,000 $72,000

$\text{Less: Variable cost}$ $45,000 $96,000 $51,000

Contribution $35,000 $56,000 $21,000

$\text{Less: Additional}$ ---- $10,000 $10,000

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$\text{Differential profit}$ $35,000 $46,000 $11,000

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The worker that carries out the same job function repeatedly becomes extremely skilled in the activity.
Work is carried out faster.

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