Multiple Choice
The inventories of a company that manufactures snow blowers increase in the summer and decline in the winter. This example is most consistent with which of the following explanations for holding inventories?
A) production smoothing
B) inventories as factors of production
C) stock-out avoidance
D) work in progress
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