When Companies in a Market-Directed Economy Try to Find "Little

question 149

Multiple Choice

When companies in a market-directed economy try to find "little monopolies" for themselves,

• A) success is likely to attract more competitors-and squeezing of the innovators' profits.
• B) they will fail.
• C) this reduces innovation, new investment, and economic growth.
• D) the allocation of resources will be the same as in a purely competitive economy.
• E) this forces consumers to buy new-possibly more expensive-products that they do not want.

Recognize the importance of pH in biological systems and how it affects cellular function.

Understand the concept of continuous random variables and their probability measures.

Calculate probabilities involving the standard normal distribution (z-scores).

Identify and compute areas under the normal probability distribution.

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