The 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines:
A)were issued by the Justice Department to be additional to the FTC's separate guidelines.
B)require a mechanical application; in order to reduce the previously used analytic framework, which was far too subjective and uncertain.
C)rejects use of the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index.
D)clarify that merger analysis does not use a single methodology.
E)None of the above.

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The 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines clarify that there is no single methodology for merger analysis and encourage a fact-specific approach that considers various factors such as market concentration, entry barriers, and potential anticompetitive effects. The guidelines were issued jointly by both the Justice Department and the FTC and do not reject the use of the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, which is a commonly used measure of market concentration. Therefore, options A, B, C, and E are incorrect.