B. Microsoft is finally selling copies of the Windows 7 operating system to vendors. It has been a long development period! They have invested over $235 million in development costs. They figure the avera
monthly demand for the first two years will be 540,000 units per month. Their unit cost is pretty low, ju
the cost of pressing a disk and packaging, or sold as a download. Thus the unit cost is $3.90 per copy. A
what price should they sell windows 7 copies to vendors in order generate a profit of $1.10 billion in 18
months?
Unit Price to Vendors=$
(nearest $0.01)
Hint: You are going to have to choose to work in either dollars, or thousands, millions or billions of
dollars, your choice. How does that affect the values of numbers in the problem?