Better Mudder, the three-year-old mud race organization, has a goal of increasing its racing market share by 20% over the next year. It looks into how to accomplish this and discovers a low repeat runner rate. As it digs further it finds that three more mudding race organizations have started in the area this year. With increased competition, Better Mudder must change its new runner offerings and generate higher loyalty in current mudding participants. To identify this information, Better Mudder conducted a:

Afinancial institution, the thriftem bank, is in the process of formulating its loan policy for the next quarter. a total of $12 million is allocated for that purpose. being a full-service facility, the bank is obligated to grant loans to different clientele. the following table provides the types of loans, the interest rate charged by the bank, and the possibility of bad debt as estimated from past experience. type of loaninterest rateprobability of bad debtpersonal.140.10car.130.07home.1 20.03farm.125.05commercial.100.02 bad debts are assumed unrecoverable and hence produce no interest revenue either. competition with other financial institutions in the area requires that the bank allocate at least 40% of the total funds to farm and commercial loans. to assist the housing industry in the region, home loans must equal at least 50% of the personal, car, and home loans. the bank also has a stated policy specifying that the overall ratio for bad debts on all loans may not exceed .04. formulate this problem as a linear program. define your variables clearly and write all the constraints explaining the significance of each.

Overspeculation and a decrease in consumer confidence are both leading factors of: ?

An arithmetic progression involves the addition of the same quantity to each number. which might represent the arithmetic growth of agricultural production