Question

A day care program frequently has a few parents picking up their children late. In an attempt to curb this, the daycare decides to charge a fine to parents who are more than 10 minutes late. However, after the fine was implemented, the number of late parents increased. Which of these conclusions can be true?

1)The fine eliminated the non-financial incentives to be on time


2)The fine was not high enough to discourage being late


3)The fine was perceived as a price


4) All of the above

Answer 1

The correct answer is number (4): All of the above.

Step-by-step explanation:

The fine eliminated the non-financial incentives to be on time and the fine was perceived as a price because parents possibly felt guilty for picking up their children late but no punishments were given before the penalty. Since it was introduced, parents may consider it a fair trade for being late and are willing to pay the penalty.

Besides, it is possible that the fine was not high enough to make parents change their behavior because instead of decreasing the number of parents picking up their children late, the penalty increased it.

Answer 2

4) All of the above

Step-by-step explanation:

The day care program should have rewardedbeing on time to encourage this attitude.

Instead they put a price on being late. As parent considers this price cheap they arrive later to have some extra time beofre picking their childrens

Either the day care program reconsiders the fine policy and moves into a better program to estimulate being on time or it increases the "price" so is more expensive for the parents to come in time rather than paiying their fines.