The owners of carpo inc., a watch company, also own a steel company and a leather goods manufacturing company. this relieves them from expenses that they would have to bear, if they had to rely on outside sources for the raw materials needed to make their watches. this enables the company to produce watches at a much lesser cost than other companies in the industry. under what conditions would this lead to a sustainable competitive advantage?

Read this excerpt from the narrative of the life of frederick douglass. the more i read, the more i was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. . i loathed them as being the meanest as well as the most wicked of men. as i read and contemplated the subject, behold! that very discontentment which master hugh had predicted would follow my learning to read had already come, to torment and sting my soul to unutterable anguish. which statement best describes douglass's viewpoint? he believes that increased knowledge inspires a greater hatred of injustice. he believes that master hugh deeply regrets his harsh treatment and seeks to stop. he believes that master hugh’s cruel treatment is severely injuring his well-being. he believes that the material he reads is upsetting to him and master hugh.

Explain how you might determine the rate of weathering on a sample rock

Consider a normal distribution of frog weights with u = 500 grams and o = 65 grams. a sample of size 2,000 is drawn from this population. approximately how many of the 2,000 cases would you expect to find between 435 and 565?