What are the advantages of having a civil service system to select government workers in ancient china?

Why does the supreme court only listen to a small percentage of cases every year?

Locate an article online from a news source that illustrates at least one determinant of supply. write a summary of the article, list the determinant(s) that were discussed in the article, and give a brief explaination of the effect of the determinant(s). you don't need to write the entire thing out, just find a source and tell me what i should include. i'm not the best at some parts of economics, and this is one of the parts i suck at.

Explain how the poverty level is determined. on edinuity* the possible answer may the poverty level is defined by the u.s. bureau of the census and it is determined by calculating the cost of providing an adequate diet. this number is then multiplied by three because research has indicated that poor people spend a third of their income on food.