Comstock Coal Distributors does not mine coal itself. In fact, the firm does not even store or handle coal. Instead, Comstock solicits orders for low sulfur coal from other firms, then purchases the required amount from suppliers and directs them to ship the coal to its customers.

Comstock is a:

A. drop shipper.

B. resource delivery facilitator.

C. cash-and-carry wholesaler.

D. limited distribution broker.

The market demand curve for a popular teen magazine is given by q = 80 - 10p where p is the magazine price in dollars per issue and q is the weekly magazine circulation in units of 10,000. if the circulation is 400,000 per week at the current price, what is the consumer surplus for a teen reader with maximum willingness to pay of $3 per issue?

Aeuropean aircraft producer has spent 15 years in developing a new aircraft that would potential threaten long-lasting boeing's dominance (monopoly) in the same class of aircrafts. the new european aircraft gets high marks on all performance measures except noise. because of the noise, the european producers management is concerned that the us government may impose restrictions which would forbid their aircraft to land in some of the american airports. without restrictions the estimated (present discounted) profit would be 125 million usd. with the restrictions the profit would only be 25 million usd. the chances of both outcomes are estimated to be 50-50. management must decide now whether to the cost of redesign program problem and a 60% chance it will fail. should the european aircraft producer start the noise redesign program if they do not have any redesign parts of the aircraft to solve the noise problem. is 25 million usd. there is a 40% chance that redesign will solve the noise additional information than mentioned above? draw the decision tree, indicate probabilities and outcomes of the events * imagine that the company could find out in advance the outcome of the u. s. government's e find the expected value of perfect information about the u. s. government's decision. decision. draw a new decision tree, indicate probabilities and outcomes of the events.

Which of the following is true of the strategy of planned and unplanned change in global marketing? a) cultural congruence involves deliberately changing certain aspects of culture to meet marketing goals. b) all marketing efforts require planned or unplanned change in order to be accepted. c) planned change involves marketing products similar to the ones already on the market. d) the first step in bringing about planned change in a society is to remove obstacles for acceptance of a product. e) social planners gained the acceptance of protein-rich diets among the peoples of underdeveloped societies using the strategy of planned change.