Answer: Offset their losses with gains
Explanation:
Diversification reduces the risk of losses because it spreads investment out across different industries that are ideally negatively correlated so that if things in one industry go wrong for instance, things will go right in the other.
For instance, the investor could invest in both Ice cream companies and Hot Beverage companies with the idea being that in winter when the Ice Cream company losses sales, the Hot Beverage company would make up for it and vice versa in the summer.
Diversification therefore works by offsetting losses in one investment with gains in another.
That their is a higher head, that Although "Judaism birthed both Christianity and Islam", the "three monotheistic faiths went their separate ways". The three faiths "understand the role of Abraham" in "differing ways", and the relationships between Judaism and Christianity and between Judaism and Islam are "uneven".
The first person to sail around Africa and to reach India ( and to get some precious spices from there!) was Portuguese Vasco da Gama, who did this in his journey that started in 1497 and reached India in 1498 ( and returned in 1499)
The advantages of using election to fill offices is that the people voting will get a fair say in hiring the person. The disadvantages is that if, lets say if that person's friend is apart of the debating, that would be unfair, because if he doesn't have the skill, but his friend will vote for him because... well he's his friend, that would be unfair.
A)it would protect British ships in New York and Philadelphia