In an effort to inform political leaders and economists discussing the deregulation of electric and gas utilities, data on eight numerical variables from utility companies have been grouped using hierarchical clustering based on Euclidean distance to measure dissimilarity between observations and complete linkage as the agglomeration method. (a) Based on the following dendrogram, what is the most appropriate number of clusters to organize these utility companies?

In an effort to inform political leaders and economists discussing the deregulation of electric and gas utilities, data on eight numerical variables from utility companies have been grouped using hierarchical clustering based on Euclidean distance to measure dissimilarity between observations and complete linkage as the agglomeration method. (a) Based on the following dendrogram, what is the most appropriate number of clusters to organize these utility companies?

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