Please answer the following questions. Your answers will not affect your grade in any way (though your group members answers might): 1. List your group members’ names and give them grades 0-100 for their effort on all cases only. If you give a number below 100, please explain briefly why. 2. List your group members’ names and give them grades 0-100 for their effort on the final project only. If you give a number below 100, please explain briefly why.  

8. Given the reasons why writing well is difficult, discuss the effect of reading comprehension on the development of writing skills for early elementary school students (1-3 grades). How would you go about helping children write better?

Eli Lilly, the manufacturer of prescription supported Zepbound just published a study that finds them as more effective than Wegovy. As a response, Wegovy’s Novo Nordisk is planning on increasing advertising investment, with an informative ad on how the drug works to reduce appetite. True/False: Ely Lilly can decrease their own advertising spending to achieve the same sales target.

A hotel booking website, VrBoNBo, is showing consumers a base price on the first screen, and only adds resort fees and taxes at the check-out page. It runs an A/B test and finds that an increase in base room price reduces bookings by 30% more than the same price increase displayed as “fees”. Discuss what might happen to demand in the short-run and long-run if VrBoNBo decides to add a dollar to the base price and reduce a dollar from the fees.

An established ice cream brand offers a lower price for people who wear a shirt with the brand logo. An analysis identifies that consumers who persistently do not purchase the ice cream for the regular price do purchase when wearing the logo. Other consumers purchase the product only for the full price. True/False: The brand is successfully price discriminating over time, because it attracts consumers who otherwise wouldn’t have purchased.

In the Pandora case, a higher ad-load leads listeners to reduce their ad-supported listening time. Some listeners leave, some listen less, and some become subscribers. But we lack some numbers on the magnitudes of these effects. So, assume that at the status quo, a 5% increase in ad-load does not change ad-revenue.  True/False: Increasing ad-load by 5% will increase profits.

You developed a new drug, TheLorax, and you will be the monopolist in the market. Developing the drug cost $844.3 million over the past 6 years. You expect that if you price at $300 you can sell 10,000 units per year and if you price at $100 you can sell about 31,000 units per year. Your marginal cost of production is $0.88. You face a constant elasticity demand curve where the price elasticity of demand is -1.03. 1. What price should you set (round to nearest dollar)? 2. Do you wish to enter?

UBER Technologies earned $900 million of pretax accounting income for the year 2024. For the same period, UBER reported taxable income of $765 million. The company’s income tax rate is 25%. What is Income Tax Payable for the year 2024 (rounded, in millions)?    

If the carrying value of bonds decreases over the life of the bonds, the bonds were issued

The indirect method: I.  Arrives at the same amounts for net cash flows as the direct method. II.  Is used by companies in actual practice about equally compared to the direct method III.  Adjusts Net Income to determine net cash flows from operations IV. Presents individual cash inflows and cash outflows for operating activities                                                                                                                         Choose all statements that are true: