Question

Which of these activities will most likely result in an external benefit?A. A college student buys a deck of cards to play solitaire in her dorm room.B. A ten-year-old uses his allowance to buy new Nike shoes.C. An executive purchases a book to read on a business trip.D. An elderly woman plants a flower garden on the vacant lot next to her house.

Answer 1

Answer:

D. an elderly woman plants a flower garden on the vacant lot next to her house                    

Explanation:

             External benefits refers to the advantage or potential gains one gets by investing or doing an activity or task which is not of any primary benefit to himself or herself. The society or other people can gain benefit from them apart from the person doing the activity.

            In the context, a woman who does flower gardening on a vacant land which is next to her house can result an external benefit form the flowers. She can admire the beauty of the flowers and also the other people in the society. However it will not have an internal benefit to the woman.