Correct Question: A type of coverage with a small face amount, typically purchased to pay the burial expenses of the insured, is called a(n) _________ plan:
A. Family
B. Industrial
C. Interment
D. Annuity
Answer:
B. Industrial
Explanation:
Also called a pre need insurance, industrial insurance is the type of insurance that is procured to take care of future occurrence such as burial.
Answer:
a. Certain parts acquired from Japanese automakers are at lesser risk because the components are standardized.
b. Sourcing engines and transmissions locally is at higher risk as the company has gone toward customization which involves risks and the product will not be standardized.
c. This involves less risk and standardized.
Explanation:
The standardized components will create lesser risk to the company. When the company goes towards customization then there will be risk involved in the components as the customers might not accept the customized components and standardized feature might be more appreciated by the customers.
Answer:
A) the range of variation
Explanation:
In statistics, the range is a measure of variation which includes the highest value and the lowest value, in other words, the extreme points.
In this case, the range of variation represents the extreme points at which it is OK to plant our seeds. If we plant seeds more than 13" apart then we aren't doing it correctly, the same if we pant them less than 11" apart.
Answer:
The options for this question are the following:
A. a cartel, as the three airlines together would attempt to coordinate policies in the local market to jointly maximize profits.
B. monopolistic competitors, as each firm would have to differentiate its airline services from its rivals.
C. perfect competitors, as each firm would sell travel services at the same fares as the other airlines.
D. kinked demand curve oligopolists.
The correct answer is A. a cartel, as the three airlines together would attempt to coordinate policies in the local market to jointly maximize profits.
Explanation:
A cartel is a formal agreement between two or more companies in order to reduce competition between them and increase their profits or joint profits.
A cartel is the formal expression of a collusion agreement. This implies that firms explicitly agree on the level of certain competitive variables such as price, quantity, distribution of customers or areas, etc.
The goal of cartel members is to increase joint benefits at the cost of reducing or eliminating competition. In this way, it is intended to act as a monopoly by increasing prices, reducing the quantity and increasing the profits obtained from sales.
Answer:
In that case, Patricia:
is still liable to pay the additional 10%.
Explanation:
The 10% price increase was preceded by an agreement between the two parties. Patricia is bound to honor her agreements with her business partner to sustain the business relationship. Refusing to pay a debt just by a change of mind does not repudiate the contract. Nancy can enforce the agreement in the court for specific performance of the contract because this additional agreement simply modifies the earlier contract and remains enforceable.
