Deborah was relatively new to her marketing position when she got into a serious discussion about customers with a colleague who had been in the marketing area for many years. This colleague argued that he had always kept the customer in mind when thinking about the product. He also argued that although branding and packaging decisions were important to the customer, the firm knew about options and issues far better than any customer. Deborah’s more modern position was different because she looked at the product decisions from the perspective of:
A. the gap between the younger generation and the older generation.
B. the benefits the customer gets from the product.
C. the impact of new technologies.
D. the changes in the media consumption habits.

True or false: the student with this role should never submit an asking price of less than $10.50.

Consider the local telephone company, a natural monopoly. the following graph shows the monthly demand curve for phone services and the company’s marginal revenue (mr), marginal cost (mc), and average total cost (atc) curves. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 price (dollars per subscription) quantity (thousands of subscriptions) d mr mc atc 8, 60 suppose that the government has decided not to regulate this industry, and the firm is free to maximize profits, without constraints. complete the first row of the following table. pricing mechanism short run long-run decision quantity price profit (subscriptions) (dollars per subscription) profit maximization marginal-cost pricing average-cost pricing suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to marginal cost. complete the second row of the previous table. suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to average total cost. complete the third row of the previous table. under average-cost pricing, the government will raise the price of output whenever a firm’s costs increase, and lower the price whenever a firm’s costs decrease. over time, under the average-cost pricing policy, what will the local telephone company most likely do

Tina is applying for the position of a daycare assistant at a local childcare center. which document should tina send with a résumé to her potential employer? a. educational certificate b. work experience certificate c. cover letter d. follow-up letter