Culture affects economic activity through the choices that people make about how to allocate scarce resources. ... So if culture is going to influence economic activity, it has to influence those constrained optimization problems.
The correct answer is the prefix “Trans” and the word is Transcontinental.
This prefix occurs in loanwords from Latin. It is used in words with the context of “going across”, “beyond”, or “through” in combination with the particulars of any origin.
Vending machines, because each is just a word telling you that both were empty. Vending machines is what the whole sentence is based on.
This is a Fact.
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