Please make a request and then explain your reasoning

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts

the correct answer is:

b) a rich merchant.

its many islands, high mountains, and remote peninsulas isolated population centers.

b: to eliminate competition from other farmers