Analysis of College Students' Chocolate Buying Habits and Meeting Reporting Skills
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Tip: This site supports text-selection search. Just highlight any word.Oh, excuse me. I'm conducting a survey about buying the area. Do you have time to answer a few questions about buying candy? Okay, sure. Alright, so first are you a student? Yes, I'm a junior here. Okay, great. So next question, do you ever buy chocolate? Yeah, of course. Okay, how often do you buy chocolate? A lot. I have at least one every day. Okay, so between eight and ten times a week? Yeah, I'd say so.
Do you usually buy regular chocolate or premium chocolate? Just regular chocolate, you know, like Hershey's or Cadbury's or something? How much do you think is a reasonable amount to pay for a chocolate bar? Two, three or four dollars. Two dollars, definitely. Okay, and do you ever buy chocolate to give as a gift to someone? Sure. How often do you think? Well, if someone's feeling sad or something, maybe once a month. And for a gift you buy a bar or a box? A bar. Okay, and for a gift, how much would you spend for a bar of chocolate? Two, three or four dollars. Well, it depends. We're probably three dollars. I don't have a lot of these days.
Okay, and how often do you buy a box of plenty at a gift? Well, I don't think... Oh, wait, Valentine's Day. Yes, once a year, when you see. Great. Thank you for your time. I'd like to give you one of our Rainier Chocolate bars for helping us out. Thank you. Yeah. What did they learn about the college age consumer? Complete the following sentences based on the interview. Has at least one chocolate bar a day? Buys between seven and ten chocolate bars a week. Usually buys regular chocolate. Spends no more than two dollars per bar. Give someone a chocolate bar about once a month. Almost never buys a box of chocolate.
- occasion
noun
1. an event that occurs at a critical time
e.g. at such junctures he always had an impulse to leave
it was needed only on special occasionsSynonym: juncture
2. a vaguely specified social event
e.g. the party was quite an affair
an occasion arranged to honor the president
a seemingly endless round of social functionsSynonym: affairsocial occasionfunctionsocial function
3. reason
e.g. there was no occasion for complaint
4. an opportunity to do something
e.g. there was never an occasion for her to demonstrate her skill
5. the time of a particular event
e.g. on the occasion of his 60th birthday
- survey
noun
1. a detailed critical inspection
Synonym: study
2. the act of looking or seeing or observing
e.g. he tried to get a better view of it
his survey of the battlefield was limitedSynonym: viewsight
3. short descriptive summary (of events)
Synonym: sketchresume
- reasonable
adj
1. not excessive or extreme
e.g. a fairish income
reasonable pricesSynonym: fairfairish
2. marked by sound judgment
e.g. sane nuclear policy
Synonym: sane
3. showing reason or sound judgment
e.g. a sensible choice
a sensible personSynonym: sensible
- consumer
noun
1. a person who uses goods or services
- reporting
noun
1. the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television
e.g. they accused the paper of biased coverage of race relations
Synonym: coveragereportage
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