Which of the following statements is true of a company in the first stage of global business development? a. it diversifies its business in another country. b. it operates in its home country and sells its products in another country. c. it sets up foreign subsidiaries to handle sales in one country. d. it establishes its core corporate functions in different countries.

The 2007 nbi data were analyzed and the results made available oat the fhwa web site. using the fhwa inspection rations, each of the 599,766 highway bridges in the united states was categorized as structurally deficient, functionally obsolete, or safe. about 12% of the bridges were found to be structurally deficient, while 13.5% were functionally obsolete. a. what is the variable of interest to the researchers? b. is the variable of part a quantitative or qualitative?