If a Firm Has a Marketing Division and a Production

question 8

Multiple Choice

If a firm has a marketing division and a production division with increasing costs,and a competitive external market for the production division's output exists,then the marketing division should always buy:

• A) from the production division at production's price.
• B) all it wants at the external market price from the production division.
• C) only externally.
• D) all the production division can produce at the external price.
• E) what it wants at the external market price, first from whatever the production division wishes to sell and then, if necessary, externally.

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