Which type of promotion is considered the most common and involves paying for the right to present your message to an existing audience?
O A. Sponsorship
OB. Advertising
O C. Merchandising
D. Direct marketing

The wall street journal reported that walmart stores inc. is planning to lay off 2,300 employees at its sam's club warehouse unit. approximately half of the layoffs will be hourly employees (the wall street journal, january 25-26, 2014). suppose the following data represent the percentage of hourly employees laid off for 15 sam's club stores. 55 56 44 43 44 56 60 62 57 45 36 38 50 69 65 (a) compute the mean and median percentage of hourly employees being laid off at these stores. (b) compute the first and third quartiles. (c) compute the range and interquartile range. (d) compute the variance and standard deviation. (e) do the data contain any outliers? (f) based on the sample data, does it appear that walmart is meeting its goal for reducing the number of hourly employees?

An investment offers a total return of 18 percent over the coming year. janice yellen thinks the total real return on this investment will be only 14 percent. what does janice believe the inflation rate will be over the next year?

On december 1, 2017, bigham corporation pays a dividend of $4.00 on each share of its common stock. vanessa and gena, two unrelated shareholders, each own 5,000 shares of the stock. vanessa has owned her stock for two years while gena purchased her stock on november 3, 2017. how does each shareholder treat the $20,000 dividend from bigham