Students at a Major University Must Go Through Several Registration

Multiple Choice

Students at a major university must go through several registration steps. Officials have observed that it is typically the case that the waiting line at the fee-payment station is the longest. This would seem to suggest that the fee-payment station is the ___________ in the student registration process.

A) capacity cushion
B) first station
C) bottleneck
D) economy of scale
E) diseconomy of scale