You are in the process of starting your own business, a specialty cupcake store. from your study of marketing, you realize that many of your business decisions, such as where to open the store and how to advertise it, will depend on the segment of the population you want to attract as customers for your product. you start looking at data about the types of stores in different parts of the town and the demographics of the individuals in different neighborhoods. what are you doing in this process? 1. marketing to the environment2. engaging in category management3. selecting a target market4. analyzing the wheel of retailing5. creating a promotional strategy

Oceanside marine company manufactures special metallic materials and decorative fittings for luxury yachts that require highly skilled labor. oceanside uses standard costs to prepare its flexible budget. for the first quarter of the year, direct materials and direct labor standards for one of their popular products were as follows: direct materials: 2 pound per unit; $ 11 per pound direct labor: 2 hours per unit; $ 19 per hour oceanside produced 2 comma 000 units during the quarter. at the end of the quarter, an examination of the direct materials records showed that the company used 7 comma 500 pounds of direct materials and actual total materials costs were $ 98 comma 100. what is the direct materials cost variance? (round any intermediate calculations to the nearest cent, and your final answer to the nearest dollar.)

Microsoft's stock price peaked at 6118% of its ipo price more than 13 years after the ipo suppose that $10,000 invested in microsoft at its ipo price had been worth $600,000 (6000% of the ipo price) after exactly 13 years. what interest rate, compounded annually, does this represent? (round your answer to two decimal places.)

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