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  The figure shown displays the choices that could be made by two coffee shops: Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts. Both companies are trying to decide whether or not to expand into a new area. The area can only handle one coffee shop's expansion, and the expansion of one shop will cause the other to lose some business. If both coffee shops expand, the market will become saturated and neither will do well. The payoffs for these shops are the additional profits (or losses) they will earn.This game is a version of: A) the prisoner's dilemma. B) the first-mover advantage. C) a sequential game. D) a repeated game. The figure shown displays the choices that could be made by two coffee shops: Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts. Both companies are trying to decide whether or not to expand into a new area. The area can only handle one coffee shop's expansion, and the expansion of one shop will cause the other to lose some business. If both coffee shops expand, the market will become saturated and neither will do well. The payoffs for these shops are the additional profits (or losses) they will earn.This game is a version of:


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Factors

Elements or conditions that contribute to a particular result or situation; in mathematics, numbers or expressions that multiply to form a product.

Number 12

The whole number that follows 11 and precedes 13, part of the counting order in mathematics.

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Whole Number

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