The owner of a small hardware store learns that a large competitor is opening a store nearby. The new competitor has smaller profit margins on each unit than the small store but earns profits through larger volume. Which of the following techniques would BEST help the small store remain competitive?
A product manager wants to predict a sales team's performance for the upcoming year based on the average price of the products the team sells and the number of staff members on the sales team. Team performance is measured on a scale from 0 to 100. The resulting regression equation is below:
Performance = 33.50 - 0.02(product price) + 0.79(number of staff members)
What is the predicted team performance for the upcoming year, given that the average price of products sold is forecasted to be $40, and there are 25 people on the sales team?
A manager at an internet retailer wants to determine whether a recent change in the company's supply chain strategy has affected the amount of time it takes for an order to reach a customer. The historical average amount of time from placing the order to final delivery is 5.2 days. A random sample of 60 orders taken after the implementation of the new strategy indicates an average delivery time of 4.5 days with a standard deviation of 1.4 days. The manager wishes to perform a hypothesis test at a 95% confidence level. Which option represents the correct calculation for the range of likely sample means? Please note that the function for confidence intervals in Excel is =CONFIDENCE.NORM(alpha, standard_dev, size).
A college senior is considering starting a business instead of accepting a job that offers a $50,000 salary. To determine if there would be demand for the business, the student has spent $1,000 to survey potential customers. After collecting survey data, the student estimates that the business would earn $80,000 in revenues per year. The student should start the business if the annual cost of running the business is less than:
The only grocery store in a town has recently seen its profits decrease. An executive at the grocery store has been challenged to find a way to reverse this trend without losing significant sales. What is a possible technique the company can use to increase its producer surplus?
