General Motors Operates Several Divisions in Supplying Cars, Trucks, Vans

question 91

Multiple Choice

General Motors operates several divisions in supplying cars, trucks, vans, and SUVs to its customers. Each division engages the usual business participants, overlaps management functions with other divisions, and works in basically the same functional areas as all of the others. Chevrolet, Cadillac, and GMC trucks are among the company’s product lines. Its few major competitors include Ford, DaimlerChrysler, Nissan, Honda, and Toyota. Each automaker sells a large portion of all the products sold in the marketplace, and each differentiates its product lines.
-If the automobile industry included many rather than few manufacturers of differentiated their products,we might conclude that it was characterized by _____ conditions.

• A)perfect competition
• B)oligopoly
• C)monopolistic
• D)monopoly

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Definitions:

Opportunity Cost

The charge of overlooking the next most beneficial alternative while making a choice.

Consumer Goods

Goods that are produced and purchased for personal use, satisfying direct consumer wants and needs.

Opportunity Cost

Waiving the opportunity for improvement from multiple choices by deciding on one.

Linear Production

A type of production process where output increases at a constant rate as more inputs are added.