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  • A. target profit pricing
  • B. perceived value pricing
  • C. break-even pricing
  • D. target return pricing

Explanation: Perceived-value pricing sets the price according to what buyers believe the complete offering is worth, including warranty and customer…

Correct answer: perceived value pricing
  • A. cost
  • B. supply
  • C. demand
  • D. discount and allowance

Explanation: Demand helps determine the price a product can command because buyers' willingness to purchase changes with price.

Correct answer: demand
  • A. interactive
  • B. augmented
  • C. elastic
  • D. inelastic

Explanation: Demand is inelastic when a price change produces little or no change in quantity demanded.

Correct answer: inelastic
  • A. variable costs
  • B. augmented costs
  • C. total costs
  • D. fixed costsCompare Credit Cards

Explanation: Variable costs change with production volume, such as raw materials and direct packaging.

Correct answer: variable costs
  • A. 5333
  • B. 6333
  • C. 7333
  • D. 4333

Explanation: Break-even volume equals fixed cost divided by contribution per unit: $80,000 ÷ ($25 − $10) = 5,333.33 units, so the listed answer is…

Correct answer: 5333
  • A. $18,000
  • B. $16,000
  • C. $34,000Book Sales Coaching
  • D. $340,000

Explanation: Total cost is found by adding fixed and variable costs: $18,000 + $16,000 = $34,000. The $340,000 option is a misplaced-zero distractor.

Correct answer: $34,000Book Sales Coaching
  • A. compensation deal
  • B. buy back arrangement
  • C. barter
  • D. offset

Explanation: A compensation deal combines partial cash payment with goods or services supplied by the buyer.

Correct answer: compensation deal
  • A. cash rebates
  • B. loss leader pricing
  • C. special customer pricing
  • D. special event pricing

Explanation: Loss-leader pricing reduces the price of a well-known product to attract customers, who may then purchase other profitable items.

Correct answer: loss leader pricing
  • A. break-even pricing
  • B. perceived value pricing
  • C. value pricing
  • D. target return pricing

Explanation: Value pricing offers acceptable or good quality at a relatively low price, stressing customer value rather than maximum margins.

Correct answer: value pricing
  • A. reduction of discounts
  • B. unbundling
  • C. escalator clauses
  • D. delayed quotation pricing

Explanation: Delayed quotation pricing means the seller postpones fixing the price until the product is completed, which protects against cost changes…

Correct answer: delayed quotation pricing
  • A. seasonal allowances
  • B. trade-off allowances
  • C. trade-in allowances
  • D. promotional allowances

Explanation: Promotional allowances are extra payments or credits given to channel members for advertising, displaying, or supporting a sales…

Correct answer: promotional allowances
  • A. fixed costs
  • B. labor wages
  • C. employees' salaries
  • D. variable costs

Explanation: In basic pricing classifications, overheads are treated as fixed costs because they do not change directly with each unit produced or…

Correct answer: fixed costs
  • A. supply
  • B. cost
  • C. discount and allowance
  • D. demand

Explanation: Cost sets the price floor because selling below total relevant cost cannot be sustained in the long run.

Correct answer: cost
  • A. season pricing
  • B. emergency pricing
  • C. channel pricing
  • D. time pricing

Explanation: Time pricing varies the price or buying opportunity according to a time limit, such as ordering within 20 minutes of a television…

Correct answer: time pricing
  • A. escalator clauses
  • B. reduction of discounts
  • C. unbundling
  • D. delayed quotation pricing

Explanation: An escalator clause allows the seller to increase the contract price for stated inflation or cost increases before delivery.

Correct answer: escalator clauses
  • A. price-war traps
  • B. all of above
  • C. low-quality traps
  • D. shallow-pockets traps

Explanation: Price cutting can trigger a price war, expose a firm with shallow pockets to cash-flow pressure, and make customers suspect low quality.

Correct answer: all of above
  • A. analyzing prices of competitor's
  • B. estimating costs
  • C. select pricing objective
  • D. determining demand

Explanation: Pricing begins by selecting the pricing objective, such as profit maximisation, market share growth, or survival.

Correct answer: select pricing objective
  • A. markup pricing
  • B. markup costing
  • C. target return costing
  • D. target return pricing

Explanation: Target-return pricing sets a price by adding the return desired on the investment to the cost and expected sales volume.

Correct answer: target return pricing
  • A. unbundling
  • B. reduction of discounts
  • C. delayed quotation pricing
  • D. escalator clauses

Explanation: Unbundling means separating a previously combined package and charging for its components individually.

Correct answer: unbundling
  • A. fourth-degree discrimination
  • B. third-degree discrimination
  • C. first-degree price discrimination
  • D. second-degree price discrimination

Explanation: Third-degree price discrimination charges different prices to identifiable customer groups, such as students, seniors, or business and…

Correct answer: third-degree discrimination