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Mini-Case For as Long as She Could Remember, Jenna Raiter's Passion

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For as long as she could remember, Jenna Raiter's passion was cars. As a teenager, she spent hours with her dad tinkering with the family car, learning to change the oil and making minor repairs. She got a job at a local garage while still in high school. A few years after graduating from high school and completing the auto mechanics degree at a local community college, Jenna decided she wanted to be her own boss. She quit her job, borrowed some money from her dad, and began her own repair shop, the AutoMotion Garage. Jenna's hard work gradually attracted a loyal clientele of satisfied customers. Her success has her thinking about opening garages in two other locations, but she lacks the financial resources needed for expansion. Furthermore, the success of her business is forcing Jenna to spend more time managing the business and less time doing the actual technical work she still enjoys. She wants to find business partners who can help her with management and provide additional financial resources. She has approached a couple of friends she met in high school: Al Ternator and Lew Banfilter, to see if they would like to join the business.
-When Jenna confided in Lew and Al that she too was concerned about adding additional risk, Lew suggested that they explore the possibility of one of the newest forms of business ownership, a(n) ____________, which has very flexible ownership rules and would give them more choices in how the company's earnings are taxed while still protecting all owners from high levels of risk.

Definitions:

Normal Goods

Goods for which demand increases as consumer income rises, and decreases as consumer income falls, reflecting a direct relationship between income and demand.

Competitive Market

A market structure characterized by a large number of buyers and sellers, homogenous products, and no single buyer or seller can influence the market price.

Market Price

The current price at which an asset or service can be bought or sold in a given market.

Market System

A system where economic decisions, such as pricing and investment, are determined by supply and demand.