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Consumer & Industrial Markets, Lesson 1-3

Marketing Math Skills:

  1. 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)?
  1. 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?
  2. 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:

  1. 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:

  1. From the reading, what makes a good or service becomes an Economic good or service?
  1. 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:

  1. Is it describing an economic good or an economic service?
  2. 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 Market
Example: Ice Cream for private birthday party. / Good / Consumer
  1. Contact lenses for a person who wears glasses

  1. Installation of carpeting in all classrooms in the school.

  1. New computers for a company’s office.

  1. Paper purchased by a magazine publisher

  1. Robots purchased by auto manufacturer for welding.

  1. Rental of a cap and gown for a graduation

  1. Computer repair for your personal laptop

  1. A new postage meter for the shipping department

  1. Purchase brand-name clothing for you to wear to a party.

  1. Haircuts for your family.

  1. You purchase a wheelchair after you break your leg.

  1. You pay for a movie at a movie theater