During a sales presentation, the salesperson, Kiara, informs the customer that the Zeus water reclamation system is the best system available in the market in the $50-$60 price range. He misunderstands the description partly because of the unnecessary technical details and partly because of the distraction caused by his secretary who comes in during the presentation and asks for his signature. In the context of the communication process, Kiara is , the customer is , and the secretary is in this scenario.

Kiara is      sender    , the customer is      receiver     , and the secretary is the noise     in this scenario.

Explanation:

Depending on the author you can find that the communication process may be desribed in different number of steps but it is clear that the communication process starts with an idea that someone wants to transmit.

The person who transmtis the idea is the sender. Clearly, Kiara, who is informing the customer is the    sender    .

The sender must encode the message, i.e. the sender must put it in words, graphs, pictures, or any medium that the person to whom the communication is aimed can understand.

Then the message, will pass trhough some channels, in this case since the presentation is alive, person to person, she is speaking,  but she could add a video presentation. Some examples of channels are  writing, video transmission, electronic transmission, among others.

Then, the person who is the target of the communication, the customer in this case, is the   receiver   .

The receiver shall have to decode the message to understand it and, hopefully give a feedback that lets the sender understand if and how well the receiver understood it. The sender then could start again, adjusting some steps of the communication process.

  Noise   is everything in the channel or even in the same receiver that distracts him/her causing that the message is distorted or not understood. Then, clearly, the secretary ,who comes in during the presentation and interrupted the communication process,  is noise in this scenario.

being born in poverty would limit the people's chances, opportunities and benefits.

this happen because of several things, such as:

- poor people tend to gain less access to good education and nutrition. this mean that their chance to obtain high paying jobs would also be limited.

- poor people tend to socialize with other poor people while the rich tend to socialize with other rich people. this means that simply throguh their social circle, rich people would have more business opportunities compared to the poor people.

- rich people tend to have more capital in their disposal. this would benefit them in business since it is far easier for them to fund their business operation compared to poor people.