The company that you manage has invested $5 million in developing a new product, but the development is not quite finished. at a recent meeting, your salespeople report that the introduction of competing products has reduced the expected sales of your new product to $2 million. if it would cost $4 million to finish development and make the product, you go ahead and do so. the most you should pay to complete development is $ million.

the assumption the narrator makes in this excerpt is that the messages he heards were going to hurt the narrator's mom; the narrator just springs in to action. the narrator doesn't specify in this excerpt why he believes that the messages present a problem that requires protection.

consumer credit. an advantage is that it allows consumers to afford expensive goods and services now, increasing their standard of living. however, a disadvantage is that it creates a trap for debt, if people do not have self control, they may see themselves filing personal bankruptcy.