Student Name: Class ID #Class Hour:
Consumer & Industrial Markets, Lesson 1-3
Marketing Math Skills:
- A customer purchases two tables at $149.99 each and would like them to be delivered. Your company chargers customers $50 for delivery and the state imposes a 5% sales tax on the furniture, but not the delivery charge. What is the total amount due from the customer (show your math)?
- At Computer World, someone without a marketing degree can get an entry-level job that pays $20,000 a year. A person with a marketing degree qualifies for the same job but will get paid 15% more per year. What is the starting salary of someone with a marketing degree at Computer World?
- Since you have a background in marketing, your boss at your new job tells you that you are eligible for a 5% yearly increase in pay after one year If your salary is $32,000, what will your salary be next year.
What are Consumer and Industrial Markets:
- Go to : (link on class web page) and read the article regarding a good and service. Define the difference between each and give three examples of each.
Good:
Examples:
Service:
Examples:
- From the reading, what makes a good or service becomes an Economic good or service?
- Use the internet to research the following terms: consumer market and industrial market. In paragraph format, define both in the space below.
Consumer Market:
Industrial Market:
After defining each, explain the primary difference between each market.
Read the following statements and decide:
- Is it describing an economic good or an economic service?
- Is it describing a consumer market or an industrial market?
Write your responses in the spaces provided (24 pts)
Good or Service / Consumer market or Industrial MarketExample: Ice Cream for private birthday party. / Good / Consumer
- Contact lenses for a person who wears glasses
- Installation of carpeting in all classrooms in the school.
- New computers for a company’s office.
- Paper purchased by a magazine publisher
- Robots purchased by auto manufacturer for welding.
- Rental of a cap and gown for a graduation
- Computer repair for your personal laptop
- A new postage meter for the shipping department
- Purchase brand-name clothing for you to wear to a party.
- Haircuts for your family.
- You purchase a wheelchair after you break your leg.
- You pay for a movie at a movie theater