As the manager of a golf resort, you want to increase the number of tee times sold by 10%. Your staff economist (and junior caddy) has determined that the price elasticity of demand for tee times is –1.5. To increase sales by the desired amount, how much should you decrease the price of a tee time in percentage terms?

Symantec corp., located in cupertino, california, is one of the world's largest producers of security and systems management software. the company's consolidated balance sheets for the 2009 and 2008 fiscal years included the following ($ in thousands): current assets: receivables, less allowances of $21,766 in 2009 and $24,089 in 2008 $ 838,010 $ 758,700 a disclosure note accompanying the financial statements reported the following ($ in thousands): year ended 2009 2008 (in thousands) trade accounts receivable, net: receivables $ 859,776 $ 782,789 less: allowance for doubtful accounts (8,938) (8,990) less: reserve for product returns (12,828) (15,099) trade accounts receivable, net: $ 838,010 $ 758,700 assume that the company reported bad debt expense in 2009 of $2,000 and had products returned for credit totaling $3,230 (sales price). net sales for 2009 were $6,174,800 (all numbers in thousands).required: what is the amount of accounts receivable due from customers at the end of 2009 and 2008? what amount of accounts receivable did symentec write off during 2009? what is the amount of symentec’s gross sales for the 2009 fiscal year? assuming that all sales are made on a credit basis, what is the amount of cash symentec collected from customers during the 2009 fiscal year?

The relationship requirement for qualifying relative requires the potential qualifying relative to have a family relationship with the taxpayer. t or fwhich of the following is not a from agi deduction? a. standard deductionb. itemized deductionc. personal exemptiond. none of these. all of these are from agi deductions

Customers arrive at rich dunn's styling shop at a rate of 3 per hour, distributed in a poisson fashion. rich can perform an average of 5 haircuts per hour, according to a negative exponential distribution. a) the average number of customers waiting for haircuts= customersb) the average number of customers in the shop= customersc) the average time a customer waits until it is his or her turn= minutesd) the average time a customer spends in the shop= minutese) the percentage of time that rich is busy= percent