Explain how concern for profits shapes business decisions.

Businesses/companies will often compromise the quality of a product or service in order to make a profit. If a company uses cheap supplies to make a product, they will make more profit from it.

Here is an example:

Imagine you are making soap-making company. You use all organic ingredients which are very expensive. Let's say it takes $6 for you to make one bar of soap. If you sell your bars for $10, then you will make a $4 profit from each bar sold.

Now let's say another company starts making soap. It looks and feels almost exactly like yours. HOWEVER, this company uses artificial ingredients. It takes them only $3 to make a bar of soap, and they sell their soap on "sale" for $9. Not only will they likely sell more soap than you because their soap is cheaper, but they will make a $6 profit from each bar sold-- two more dollars per bar than you.

The same can be true the other way around of course. If a business realizes that nobody is buying their product because it is so poorly made, then they will improve the quality of their product in order to increase their sales.

primary succession begins with a bare rock and ends with a forest secondary succession begins after a natural disaster where there is a temporary setback after a forest fire or local destruction, but the surrounding area can fill in

increase soil erosion                                             reduce soil erosion

cattle grazing                                                         hydroseeding

deforestation                                                         contour plowing

                                                                                planting vegetation

plant roots basically hold the top soil

together and stop soil erosion because

in such situation top soil is not removed

during flood but cattle grazing causes

soil erosion because cattle consume the

grasses and herbs and top soil is exposed.

same situation occurs because of

deforestation, the trees and plants are cut

down to expose top soil which causes soil

erosion