Asporting goods store is having a large sale event. baseball bats are marked down by 42%, and hockey sticks are marked down by 29%. if baseball bats cost $21.46 after the markdown and hockey sticks cost $39.05 after the markdown, which item’s price was reduced by more, and by how many more dollars was it reduced? round all dollar values to the nearest cent.
a. hockey sticks had their prices reduced by $2.31 more than baseball bats.
b. hockey sticks had their prices reduced by $0.41 more than baseball bats.
c. baseball bats had their prices reduced by $4.22 more than hockey sticks.
d. baseball bats had their prices reduced by $0.59 more than hockey sticks.

In december of 2004, the company you own entered into a 20-year contract with a grain supplier for daily deliveries of grain to its hot dog bun manufacturing facility. the contract called for "10,000 pounds of grain" to be delivered to the facility at the price of $100,000 per day. until february 2017, the supplier provided processed grain which could easily be used in your manufacturing process. however, no longer wanting to absorb the cost of having the grain processed, the supplier began delivering whole grain. the supplier is arguing that the contract does not specify the type of grain that would be supplied and that it has not breached the contract. your company is arguing that the supplier has an onsite processing plant and processed grain was implicit to the terms of the contract. over the remaining term of the contract, reshipping and having the grain processed would cost your company approximately $10,000,000, opposed to a cost of around $1,000,000 to the supplier. after speaking with in-house counsel, it was estimated that litigation would cost the company several million dollars and last for years. weighing the costs of litigation, along with possible ambiguity in the contract, what are three options you could take to resolve the dispute? which would be the best option for your business and why?

Leticia has worked for 20 years in the public relations department of a large firm and has been the vice-president for the past ten years. it is unlikely she will ever be promoted to the top executive position in her firm even though she has directed several successful projects and is quite capable. her lack of promotion is an illustration of (a) the "glass ceiling" (b) the "glass elevator" (c) the "mommy track" (d) sexual harassment

The uk economic climate is important for pod point. it is considering two options to reduce the impact of falling uk consumer incomes on sales: 1. focus on selling to foreign countries. or 2. cut costs of production. justify which one of these two options pod point should choose