Reiko is helping a customer locate an out-of-stock product. She spends most of the afternoon digging through inventory spreadsheets until she finally locates the correct stock number. Then she calls the storerooms of three different stores to see if they have that item in stock. Finally, she finds the product the customer is looking for. She emails the customer, "Well, it took me a while, but I found it. We only have one left in our whole district. It’s item #67-8136-7092, and it’s located at our Rogers location." Which of the following is the best thing could Reiko have done to improve this interaction? She could have mentioned the item number and location first. She could have mentioned the item number and location first. She could have mentioned how rare it is to find that item anywhere in stock. She could have mentioned how rare it is to find that item anywhere in stock. She could have offered more details about the inventory of the other stores.

Upscale hotels in the united states recently cut their prices by 20 percent in an effort to bolster dwindling occupancy rates among business travelers. a survey performed by a major research organization indicated that businesses are wary of current economic conditions and are now resorting to electronic media, such as the internet and the telephone, to transact business. assume a company's budget permits it to spend $5,000 per month on either business travel or electronic media to transact business. graphically illustrate how a 20 percent decline in the price of business travel would impact this company's budget set if the price of business travel was initially $1,000 per trip and the price of electronic media was $500 per hour. suppose that, after the price of business travel drops, the company issues a report indicating that its marginal rate of substitution between electronic media and business travel is 1. is the company allocating resources efficiently? explain.

Suppose a holiday inn hotel has annual fixed costs applicable to its rooms of $1.2 million for its 300-room hotel, average daily room rents of $50, and average variable costs of $10 for each room rented. it operates 365 days per year. the amount of operating income on rooms, assuming an occupancy* rate of 80% for the year, that will be generated for the entire year is *occupancy = % of rooms rented

On december 1, 2017, bigham corporation pays a dividend of $4.00 on each share of its common stock. vanessa and gena, two unrelated shareholders, each own 5,000 shares of the stock. vanessa has owned her stock for two years while gena purchased her stock on november 3, 2017. how does each shareholder treat the $20,000 dividend from bigham