Suppliers Tend to Exhibit Greater Power If

question 9

Multiple Choice

Suppliers tend to exhibit greater power if:

• A) There are few suppliers of the raw material, product, or service
• B) There are many substitutes for the product or service that suppliers sell
• C) Suppliers are small businesses with regards to total sales volume
• D) The suppliers' products are undifferentiated and plentiful

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Definitions:

Z-score

A numerical measurement that describes a value's relationship to the mean of a group of values, expressed in terms of standard deviations from the mean.

Standard Deviation

A statistical measure that quantifies the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values.

Mean

A statistical measure representing the average value of a set of numbers, calculated by dividing the sum of all values by the count of values.

Z-score

A statistical measure representing the number of standard deviations a data point is from the mean of the dataset, often used in standardizing scores.