Use the five-step decision-making process discussed in Chapter 1 to analyze the following situations and recommend a course of action. You are a new salesperson at a large software manufacturing firm. It is three weeks from the end of the sales quarter and you and your sales manager are sitting pretty—you have both already met your sales quota for the quarter. In addition, you just closed another deal with a new customer for $100,000 of software and customer service. This order would put you way over your sales quota for the current quarter. Your manager suggests that you hold this new order so it gets recorded against next quarter. She explains that because sales during the next three months tend to slow down, salespeople frequently miss their quotas and associated sales bonuses for that quarter. Holding this large order to next quarter would help you get an excellent start and almost guarantee that you meet your quota. What would you do?

4.9: population write a program that will predict the size of a population of organisms. the program should ask the user for the starting number of organisms, their average daily population increase (as a percentage, expressed as a fraction in decimal form: for example 0.052 would mean a 5.2% increase each day), and the number of days they will multiply. a loop should display the size of the population for each day. prompts, output labels and messages. the three input data should be prompted for with the following prompts: "enter the starting number organisms: ", "enter the daily increase: ", and "enter the number of days the organisms will multiply: " respectively. after the input has been read in successfully, a table is produced, for example: 2 300.0 4 675.0 under the heading is a line of 29 dashes followed by one line for each day, showing the day number and the population at the beginning of that day. input validation. do not accept a number less than 2 for the starting size of the population. if the user fails to satisfy this print a line with this message "invalid. must be at least 2. re-enter: " and try to read the value. similarly, do not accept a negative number for average daily population increase, using the message "invalid. enter a non-negative number: " and retrying. finally, do not accept a number less than 1 for the number of days they will multiply and use the message "invalid. enter 1 or more: ".