What type of html list will automatically place a number in front of the items?

An ordered list.

<ol>
    <li> This is the first item.
    <li> This is the second item.
</ol>

the answer is b. executive summary. a management summary, or executive summary, is a short article or section of a document, produced for business purposes, that condenses a longer report or proposal or a group of related reports in such a way that readers can rapidly become familiar with a large body of material without having to read it all.