In her job as a research analyst for a stock brokerage, Caroline spends a lot of time at her computer. Today her boss told her, "Find out everything you can about the textile industry in the Philippines," and she immediately sat down and typed a few words into a search engine. Soon she had a dossier on the subject, gleaned from her research on the Internet. The information Caroline acquired in this way is an example of ________ knowledge.
A) tacit
B) explicit
C) intuitive
D) heuristic
E) distinctive

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Explicit knowledge, which is easily communicated and available to everyone, is the kind of information you are likely to think about when you picture someone sitting down at a desk to learn.

In Her Job as a Research Analyst for a Stock