A Company Has 1000 Type-A Accounts,each Requiring 28 Calls Per

question 99

Multiple Choice

A company has 1000 Type-A accounts,each requiring 28 calls per year,and 2200 Type-B accounts,each requiring 15 calls per year.If each salesperson at the company makes 1500 sales calls per year on average,approximately how many salespeople will be needed?

• A)31
• B)35
• C)41
• D)45
• E)48

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Definitions:

Production Costs

Expenses associated with the creation of a product or service, including raw materials, labor, and overhead costs.

Substitution Effect

Reflects changes in consumption patterns due to changes in relative prices of goods, where consumers replace more expensive items with less expensive alternatives.

Output Effect

The impact on total production that occurs when a firm modifies the price of its good, influencing the quantity sold and altering the firm's output level.

Purely Competitive

A market structure characterized by a large number of small firms producing identical products, with easy entry and exit from the market, leading to no single firm having control over market price.