Carrot computers and its competitors purchase touch screens for their handheld computers from several suppliers. the six makers of touch screens have market shares of, respectively, 21 percent, 16 percent, 13 percent, 17 percent, 20 percent, and 13 percent. a. what is the herfindahl index for the touch screen manufacturing industry? b. by how much would a proposed merger between the two smallest touch screen makers increase the herfindahl index? would the government be likely to challenge that proposed merger? c. if carrot computers horizontally merges with its competitor blueberry handhelds, by how much would the herfindahl idex change for the touch screen industry?

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two years ago, when picking flowers in the mountains back of yosemite valley, i found a book. it was blotted and storm-beaten; all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. the paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried, however; many of the inner pages were well preserved. and although all were more or less stained and torn, whole chapters were easily readable. this is the condition of the great open book of yosemite glaciers today; its granite pages have been torn and blurred by the same storms that wasted the castaway book.

two years ago, when picking flowers in the mountains back of yosemite valley; i found a book. it was blotted and storm-beaten, all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. the paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried, however, many of the inner pages were well preserved. and although all were more or less stained and torn; whole chapters were easily readable. this is the condition of the great open book of yosemite glaciers today, its granite pages have been torn and blurred by the same storms that wasted the castaway book.