Suppose you have been hired as a management consultant by a major oil company to it optimally price gasoline at its service stations. your client has requested that your consulting team expatiate on the factors that impact gasoline prices. one of the members of your team, debbie, states that she has noticed that gasoline prices seem to rise in years when a national league baseball team wins the world series.

Answer the following questions using the data given below. annual percent return on mutual funds (n = 17) last year (x) this year (y) 11.9 15.4 19.5 26.7 11.2 18.2 14.1 16.7 14.2 13.2 5.2 16.4 20.7 21.1 11.3 12.0 –1.1 12.1 3.9 7.4 12.9 11.5 12.4 23.0 12.5 12.7 2.7 15.1 8.8 18.7 7.2 9.9 5.9 18.9

Compute the cost of not taking the following cash discounts. (use a 360-day year. do not round intermediate calculations. input your final answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.)

The management of a supermarket wants to adopt a new promotional policy of giving a free gift to every customer who spends > a certain amount per visit at this supermarket. the expectation of the management is that after this promotional policy is advertised, the expenditures for all customers at this supermarket will be normally distributed with a mean of $95 and a standard deviation of $20. if the management wants to give free gifts to at most 10% of the customers, what should the amount be above which a customer would receive a free gift?