Joe and June Green are planning for their children’s college education. Joe would like his kids to attend his alma mater where tuition is currently $25,000 per year. Tuition costs are expected to increase by 5 percent each year. Their children, David and Daniel, just turned 2 and 3 years old today, September 1, 2002. They are expected to begin college the year in which they turn 18 years old and each will complete his schooling in four years. College tuition must be paid at the beginning of each school year. Grandma Green invested $10,000 in a mutual fund the day each child was born. This was to begin the boys’ college fund (a combined fund for both children). The investment has earned and is expected to continue to earn 12 percent per year. Joe and June will now begin adding to this fund every August 31st (beginning with August 31, 2003) to ensure that there is enough money to send the kids to college. How much money must Joe and June put into the college fund each of the next 15 years if their goal is to have all of the money in the investment account by the time Daniel (the oldest son) begins college?

Peyton taylor drew a map with scale 1 cm to 10 miles. on his map, the distance between silver city and golden canyon is 3.75 cm. what is the actual distance between silver city and golden canyon?

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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?