Marketing managers should recognize that

A. product life cycles appear to be getting longer.
B. the product life cycle describes the sales and profits of individual products, not industry sales and profits.
C. every segment within a market has the same product life cycle.
D. firms that enter mature markets have to compete with established firms for declining industry profits.
E. None of these answers is correct.


Answer: D

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