An Indicator of the Degree of Competition in an Industry

question 94

Multiple Choice

An indicator of the degree of competition in an industry is the concentration ratio. It measures

• A)the percentage of sales in the industry by the largest firms.
• B)the percentage of profit in the industry by the smallest firms.
• C)the sales in the industry as a percentage of all consumption in the U.S.
• D)the profitability of the industry.

Analyze the effects of transformations on the measures of central tendency and dispersion (mean, variance, standard deviation) in probability distributions.

Apply the laws of variance to calculate variance and standard deviation from a given probability distribution.

Calculate mean or expected value for specific probability distributions.

Understand fundamental concepts and properties related to the sum of variances and expected values.

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