Fields Tech School Decides to Expand and Open a New

question 72

Multiple Choice

Fields Tech School decides to expand and open a new campus in another state.Rather than acquiring land and building new buildings,the school board decides to merge with an existing school,Fennelstate,which has similar programs in the other state.Fennelstate is a small commuter school with the majority of the students from the same state.The merger between Fields Tech School and Fennelstate is best described as a ______.

• A) vertical merger
• B) geographic extension merger
• C) product extension merger
• D) horizontal merger
• E) freeze-out merger

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