How did business leaders in the late nineteenth century utilize vertical integration? a. they maintained control of the raw materials necessary for their products. b. they delegated responsibility for production and distribution to subsidiaries. c. they maintained control of production and distribution of their products. d. they allowed market forces to dictate how their products were distributed.

Business leaders in the late nineteenth century utilized vertical integration by maintaining control of production and distribution of their products.

Option C

Explanation:

Vertical integration is a competitive strategy that gives the company full control over one or more stages of product production or distribution. Rockefeller tirelessly tried to take full control of business 'oil refinery'. While other business people were flooding the area in search of quick fortune, Rockefeller was thinking of destroying his rivals and creating a real monopoly in the refining industry.

Looking for even more control, Rockefeller saw the benefits of organizing the transportation to his products. Then, he began to develop his business through vertical integration, in which the company analyses all aspects of the product life cycle, from raw material extraction, through the production process, to the final delivery of the product.

Other industrialists quickly followed, including Gustavus Swift, who at the end of the 19th century used vertical integration to dominate the American meat packaging industry.

7. d. 64

8. i. 32

9. c. 125

10. j. none of the above

11. d. 81

12. i. 216

13. e. none of the above

14. g. 240

15. e. none of the above

16. g. 32

17.   e. none of the above

d

step-by-step explanation:

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so, when we see the words "proportional" along with a table, we need to know that we're looking numbers that divide by the same thing.

looking at this table, we simply have to do a trial and error, and divide to see which numbers have the same quotient. if you look at choice a & c, they both have equal quotients for three of the numbers, with one exception, so those can't be the answer. looking at b, there is no similarity, so that can't be it. then, we see d; if you divide all the numbers in the table, you'll see that they all divide by two, which is a proportional relationship, and our answer!

also, always remember that the x will always be the number that goes into y, and somewhere behind this table, is a formula. for this specific table, the formula would be:

since our x-value is being divided by two to get the y-value. and if they were to ask for more numbers in the series, this is the formula you would use to find them.