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18) Service location strategies and goods-producing location strategies rely on very different sets of assumptions. What are the assumptions associated with goods-producing locations? How do these assumptions lead to a location strategy? 19) How do service facility location decisions differ from industrial location decisions in terms of the techniques used to analyze them? 20) Identify the four predictive variables chosen by the profitability regression model used by La Quinta Inns. Identify some that were tested but not included in the final model. Section 5Â Â Geographic Information Systems 1) What describes a system that stores and displays information that can be linked to a geographic location? A) AIS B) LOC C) GLOC D) LIS E) GIS A) automating center-of-gravity problems. B) computerizing factor-rating analysis. C) combining geography with demographic analysis. D) updating transportation method solutions. E) providing good Internet placement for virtual storefronts. 3) Databases containing such variables as street maps, utilities, population age and income, and the software that analyzes such data for location decisions, are referred to as ________.