Answer: With a loss
Explanation:
The firm here has its Marginal cost higher than it's marginal revenue.
This means that for every additional unit sold, the company is incurring a loss of $0.50 which is the difference between the marginal cost and the marginal revenue.
The company is therefore operating at a loss because every additional unit is costing them instead of benefitting them. To counter this, they need to reduce production so that marginal cost will fall.
Answer: database
Explanation: By tracking the habits of the 100 million customers who visit it stores each week and by responding with products and services directed toward those customers' needs based on the information collected, Walmart is engaged in database marketing.
A database is simply a collection of (usually) organised information in a regular structure, usually but not necessarily in a machine-readable format accessible by a computer. The details of customers both previous and potential, contained in a database can be used in direct marketing to generate personalized communications for promoting a product or service for marketing purposes. As such, the practice leverages customer data to deliver more personalized, relevant and effective marketing messages to customers making marketing communications more targeted, efficient, personalized, and an opportunity to improve customer service and experience.
Answer:
The answer to this question is
b. people with a desire for a beverage other than soda or water
Explanation:
The "second" party needed for marketing to occur in this case are people who are in need of the product produced by Dr. Pepper Snapple Group. (I.e the customers ) however, the type of customer that Dr. Pepper Snapple group will seek to have are customer with a desire for a beverage other than soda and water because it's price is comparable to that of soft drink. Which implies that customer with no interest in that kind of product will not buy but will rather stick with their preference for soft drinks since it is the same price with the new product by Dr. Pepper Snapple group.
Hence, Dr. Pepper Snapple group will need to have people with a desire for a beverage other than soda or water for marketing to occur.
Answer: Option B
Explanation:
A trade restriction is an artificial restriction on the trade of goods and/or services between two or more countries.
The right option is B because the statement contains one error; domestic producers gain at the expense of foreign producers rather than domestic consumers.
Answer: Apply the same depreciation methods and the same useful lives among similar groups of assets
Explanation:
US GAAP for long-lived assets significantly impedes rate-of-return that is, the annual income from an investment which is being expressed as a proportion of the original investment comparisons across companies unless the firms apply the same depreciation methods and also the same useful lives are applied among identical groups of assets.
