An insurance company has found that black people are more likely to buy insurance if approached by a black agent, whilewhite people are more receptive to a white agent. The company plans to assign its black agents to ofices in predominantlyblack neighborhoods and its white agents to offices in predominately white neighborhoods. If implemented, the plan wouldbe:

llegal racial discrimination under Title Vll of the Civil Rights Act under application of the disparate treatment concept of

discrimination.lllegal under the Thirteenth Amendment of the U S Constitution\'s prohibition against slavery Legal, because customer preference is the basis of the employer\'s plan.

Legal under Title Vll as an economically rational business decision.