Nasty break-up. harold wants to purchase a lot next door to sarah's home that is owned by sarah. harold knows sarah will not sell the lot to him because they dated in the past and had a nasty break-up. harold agrees with alice that alice will purchase the lot from sarah for him. alice and sarah reach an agreement and enter into a contract whereby sarah is to sell the lot to alice for a price within the scope of alice's authority. alice tells sarah nothing about her plan to later transfer the lot to harold. before title to the lot is transferred to alice, harold tells alice that he no longer wants the lot. alice tells sarah about harold. sarah tells alice that as far as she is concerned, alice has bought the lot. sarah says that she plans to move anyway and really does not care whether alice or harold ends up with the lot. she just wants her money. what type of principal is harold?

The company financial officer was interested in the average cost of pcs that had been purchased in the past six months. she took a random sample of the price of 10 computers, with the following results. $3,250, $1,127, $2,995, $3,250, $3,445, $3,449, $1,482, $6,120, $3,009, $4,000 what is the iqr?

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?

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