Rankings in a search engine, such as google or bing, may determine the desirability of a product. in this form of marketing, a company pays for certain keywords to show up high in these rankings.

Aproperty title search firm is contemplating using online software to increase its search productivity. currently an average of 40 minutes is needed to do a title search. the researcher cost is $2 per minute. clients are charged a fee of $400. company a's software would reduce the average search time by 10 minutes, at a cost of $3.50 per search. company b's software would reduce the average search time by 12 minutes at a cost of $3.60 per search. which option would have the higher productivity in terms of revenue per dollar of input?

The food services division of cedar river amusement park inc. is studying the amount families who visit the amusement park spend per day on food and drink. a sample of 40 families who visited the park yesterday revealed they spent the following amounts: see worksheet 1 for data and answer the following questions: a. organize the data into a frequency distribution, using seven classes and 15 as the lower limit of the first class. what class interval did you select? b. what percent of families spent less than $45? c. what percent of families spent $55 or more? d. how many families spent from $65 to 74.99?

Consider a firm with a contract to sell an asset for $149,000 four years from now. the asset costs $85,000 to produce today. a. given a relevant discount rate of 14 percent per year, calculate the profit the firm will make on this asset. (a loss should be indicated by a minus sign. do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) b. at what rate does the firm just break even?