Parents Everywhere Are Very Busy and Often Cannot Spend Time

Multiple Choice

Parents everywhere are very busy and often cannot spend time with their children.In the Netherlands,children who want a bedtime story can call the telephone service and request to listen to one of twenty prerecorded fairy tales.The phone company charges $7 per story.Because of the prerecording of the stories,this bedtime service reduces the problems typically associated with the _____ characteristic of services.

A) Versatility
B) Heterogeneity
C) Simultaneous production and consumption
D) Perishability
E) Intangibility