Mettel products sells 100,000 flash drives annually to industrial distributors who resell the drives to business customers for $40 each. the distributors’ margins are 25%. mettel products’ cost of goods sold is $10.00 each. mettel’s total variable costs (including selling costs) are $15.00 per drive. what is the gross margin (in percentage) enjoyed by mettel products on its drives? [note: a firm’s margin on a product is typically calculated as a percentage of the firm’s selling price.] mettel is considering increasing its annual advertising spending from $75,000 to $150,000. how many additional flash drives would it need to sell in a year in order to break-even? now if instead of increasing its advertising spending, mettel decides to reduce its price by $3 per drive, how many additional units would it need to sell in order to break even?

Galwaysc electronics makes two products. model a requires component a and component c. model b requires component b and component c. new versions of both models are released each year with updated versions of all components. all components are sourced overseas, and abc contracts annually for a quantity of each component before seeing that year’s demand. components are only assembled into finished products once demand for each model is known. for the coming year, alwaysc’s purchasing manner has proposed ordering 500,000 units of component a, 630,000 of component b, and 1,000,000 units of component c. her boss has asked why she has recommended purchasing so much of components a and b when alwaysc will not have enough of component c to fully use all of the inventory of a and b. what factors might the purchasing manager cite to explain her recommended order? explain your reasoning.

Comprehensive illustrative problem: mira's store on february 1 20a4 mica delaman opened astore that sells school supplies her main customer are the students and teachers of happy students school that is situated in front of her store. mira wanted to know the financial position of mira's store. mira knew you were studying accounting. so she asked for . 1. to start her business mira's opened a checking account in the name of mira's store . the statement of account from the bank shows that the checking account has a balance of 31,535 of december 31,20a4

At cooly cola, we are testing the appeal of our new diet one cola. in a taste test of 250 randomly chosen cola drinkers, 200 consumers preferred diet one cola to the leading brand. assuming that the sample were large enough, the large-sample 95% confidence interval for the population proportion of cola drinkers that prefer diet one cola would be: