Robert treats coffee and creamer as perfect complements and has very specific requirements for the ratio of creamer to coffee. He will drink coffee only if he has exactly 5.00 packets of creamer for every cup of coffee. Coffee is priced at $3.00 per cup and creamer at $0.25 per packet. In the questions below, give your answers to two decimal places. a. Suppose that Robert has $39.00 to spend on coffee and creamer. His optimal consumption bundle contains cups of coffee and
b. Now, suppose that the price of creamer rises to $0.50 per packet. What is the substitution effect of this price change?

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?

Brenda wants a new car that will be dependable transportation and look good. she wants to satisfy both functional and psychological needs. true or false

An essential element of being receptive to messages is to have an open mind true or false