When Pizza Hut designed its marketing website, it wanted to make it as easy and user-friendly as possible. In particular, it did not require repeat customers to have to enter in their addresses, telephone numbers, and payment options every time they make an online purchase. Rather, it wanted its website to recognize each customer by name every time he or she visited the site to place an order. The website was designed to retrieve all the information about the customer automatically whenever he or she placed an order. To accomplish this task, Pizza Hut used a _

Sharon had some insider information about a corporate takeover. she unintentionally informed a friend, who immediately bought the stock in the target corporation. the takeover occurred and the friend made a substantial profit from buying and selling the stock. the friend told sharon about his stock dealings, and gave her a pearl necklace because she "made it all possible." the necklace was worth $10,000, but she already owned more jewelry than she desired.

Jamie is saving for a trip to europe. she has an existing savings account that earns 3 percent annual interest and has a current balance of $4,200. jamie doesn’t want to use her current savings for vacation, so she decides to borrow the $1,600 she needs for travel expenses. she will repay the loan in exactly one year. the annual interest rate is 6 percent. a. if jamie were to withdraw the $1,600 from her savings account to finance the trip, how much interest would she forgo? .b. if jamie borrows the $1,600 how much will she pay in interest? c. how much does the trip cost her if she borrows rather than dip into her savings?

Why is efficiency an important economic goal?