When You Purchase a Book on Amazon, You Generally Have

question 23

Multiple Choice

When you purchase a book on Amazon, you generally have two choices: buy it directly from Amazon or purchase it through Amazon but from a third-party vendor. If you go the direct route, Amazon has already purchased the book from a publisher and is holding it in an Amazon fulfillment center-the interaction between Amazon and the publisher is a ________ transaction. If you take the third-party route, Amazon acts as an agent for the supplier and takes a commission of about 10 percent of the value of the merchandise for the right to sell it on Amazon's platform-the interaction between Amazon and the supplier is a ________ transaction.

• A)B2B; B2B
• B)B2C; B2C
• C)B2C; B2B
• D)C2C; B2C
• E)B2B; C2C

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Definitions:

Population

The entire aggregation of items or individuals from which samples can be drawn for statistical analysis.

Measure of Variability

A statistic that describes the degree to which scores in a distribution spread out or cluster together, such as range, variance, or standard deviation.

Statistic

A numerical measure that describes a characteristic of a sample derived from a larger population.

Asymmetrical

Lacking symmetry; when two sides or halves of something do not match or are not equal in shape, size, or composition.