When executives from competing firms meet to decide which of them will submit the lowest bid on a contract, they are indulging in _____

a. price discrimination
b. price fixing

c. bait pricing

d. penetration pricing


ANSWER: b

When executives from competing firms meet to decide which of them will submit the lowest bid on a contract, they are indulging inprice fixing.Price fixing is an agreement between two or more firms on the price they will charge for a product.

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