Southern pine lumber is visually inspected and placed into categories like "Select Structural," "No. 1," and "No. 2." These categories reflect characteristics of the wood and are related to its suggested uses. This rating system is most closely related to which facilitating function activity performed by marketing intermediaries?

A. gradingB. sortingC. risk-takingD. marketingE. assorting

Suppose that a monopolistically competitive restaurant is currently serving 260 meals per day (the output where mr

Three pounds of material a are required for each unit produced. the company has a policy of maintaining a stock of material a on hand at the end of each quarter equal to 30% of the next quarter's production needs for material a. a total of 35,000 pounds of material a are on hand to start the year. budgeted purchases of material a for the second quarter would be:

Now ray has had the tires for two months and he notices that the tread has started to pull away from the tire. he has already contacted the place who sold the tires and calmly and accurately explained the problem. they didn’t him because they no longer carry that tire. so he talked with the manager and he still did not get the tire replaced. his consumer rights are being violated. pretend you are ray and write a letter to the company’s headquarters. here are some points to keep in mind when writing the letter: include your name, address, and account number, if appropriate. describe your purchase (name of product, serial numbers, date and location of purchase). state the problem and give the history of how you tried to resolve the problem. ask for a specific action. include how you can be reached.