A company's earnings are $3 per share, its dividend is $2 per share, and its stock price is $30 per share. Its PE ratio is

Ultra Tech Inc., a company manufacturing gardening tools, has decided to switch to a territorial sales force structure. Which of the following benefits is the company most likely to gain as a result of this decision?

A) The cost of training new recruits would be eliminated. B) An increased focus on short-term customer relationships would boost local sales of specialized products. C) Each salesperson would be assigned to sell a single product in which he/she specializes. D) The capacity for mass production of a wide range of products would significantly increase. E) As each salesperson travels within a limited geographic area, travel expenses would decline.

Elaborate statistical analysis, in the form of ____________, is sometimes used to aid decisions on where to locate supermarkets and similar large stores relative to prospective customers' homes and workplaces

a. binary regression b. cluster analysis c. structural equation models d. gravity models e. predictive models