Based on the industry-low, industry-average and industry-high values that appear on p.7 of each issue of the FIR, which one of the following would correctly indicate that one or more elements of your company's costs are too high compared to those of rival companies?

a. Your company's operating profit margin in the Wholesale segment of the North America region is only 5% above the industry low.
b. Your company's distribution and warehouse costs per pair sold are less than 20% below the industry average in the Asia-Pacific region.
c. Your company's marketing expenses per pair sold in both the Internet and Wholesale branded footwear segments in the Europe-Africa region are about 10% above the industry average.
d. Your company's operating profit per pair sold in the Wholesale segment of the Asia-Pacific region is below the operating profit margin in the Internet segment of the Asia-Pacific region.
e. Your company's operating profit per branded pair sold in the Wholesale segment in the North America region is only 10% above the industry average the industry average.

Onsider the following subscription behavior information from genie, a web site that provides tools for constructing a family tree (ancestor search). subscriptions cost $9.99 per month, but you are charged for the entire year at the time of purchase. there is a one-year minimum term when you sign up for the service. once purchased, subscriptions are set to renew automatically unless the subscriber cancels them. when a membership renews, it renews for a one-year term and again you are charged for the entire year. there are no variable costs associated with providing this service to an individual customer, but genie does engage in customer relationship activities that they believe will increase customer retention. these customer relationship activities cost genie about $10 per year per customer. based on a sample of 1000 customers that joined genie five years ago, near the time when the company was founded, they were able to determine how many of those customers remained subscribers in the second year, third year etc. based on this information, genie calculated the average annual retention rate to be 20%. genie uses an annual discount rate of 8%. a. last year, genie spent $10,000 placing advertisements on google. genie management believes that these advertisements were responsible for about 300 new subscribers. would you recommend to genie management that they purchase more google ads? b. suppose a newly-introduced loyalty program increases the number of customers that remained to 30%. does this new data change your answer to 9.a? c. do you have any hesitations or concerns about making recommendations to management based on your above estimate of customer lifetime value?

Using a cps-sample of 7,440 individuals, you estimate the following regression: = 20.91 - 2.61 x female where female is a binary variable that takes on the value of 1 for females and is 0 otherwise. the standard error on the coefficient on female is 0.25. the 95% confidence interval for the gender wage gap, or the amount that females earn less, is: a) [-3.10, -2.12] b) [18.30, 23.52] c) [-3.02, -2.20] d) [-1.96, -1.64]

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