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Question 1

A customer research day starts at 08:30 with three 40-minute retailer interviews followed by two 55-minute distributor interviews. Every interview is followed immediately by 10 minutes of private note capture before the next interview. After the third retailer interview and its notes, the team holds a 30-minute calibration. Lunch is fixed from 12:30 to 13:15, and neither an interview nor its note capture may straddle lunch. At what time does the final distributor interview and its note capture finish?

15:15
14:30
15:25
14:20

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Answer: C. 15:25

The three retailer blocks take 150 minutes and finish at 11:00; calibration runs to 11:30. A 65-minute distributor block cannot fit before the 12:30 lunch, so both distributor blocks run from 13:15 to 15:25. 15:15 leaves out the final note capture, 14:30 starts a distributor interview before lunch and pushes its notes past it, and 14:20 forgets the calibration.

Question 2

The CEO asks how you will approach the problem before you touch any data. Which structure best fits the case?

Decompose the P&LRevenue quality · Category margins · Operating costs · Prioritize and size recovery levers
Scan the marketCompetitor pricing and share · Customer segments and demand · New-store expansion · Long-term brand strategy
List the problemsSandwiches losing money · High food costs · Rising labor · Too much discounting
Fix costs nowRenegotiate supplier contracts · Cut store labor hours · End all promotions · Raise menu prices

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Answer: A. Decompose the P&L

The CEO asked why EBITDA nearly halved while revenue grew. Decomposing the P&L into revenue quality, category margins and operating costs diagnoses before it prescribes. The market scan answers a different question, the problem list mixes overlapping symptoms, and cutting costs first picks levers before finding where earnings leaked.

Question 3

Order terms

Teams (count)	Shared fixed fee ($/order)	Fabric per team (metres)	Price ($/metre)
3	63	18	4

Three teams share the fixed fabric-order fee equally. Each team pays for its own fabric. What is one team's total dollar cost for this order? Round the final answer to 2 decimal places.

$93.00
$135.00
$72.00
$45.00

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Answer: A. $93.00

One team pays a third of the $63 fee, which is $21, plus 18 metres at $4, which is $72, so $93.00 in total. $72.00 leaves out the fee share, and $135.00 charges one team the whole fee.

Question 4

A distributor records 10,000 orders in January. Orders then fall by 20% in February and rise by 15% in March. Each monthly change is relative to the month before.

Monthly order changes

Month	Orders or change from the month before
January	10,000 orders
February	−20%
March	+15%
April target	10% above January

What percentage increase from March orders is needed in April to reach 10% more orders than January? Round your answer to one decimal place.

15.0%
19.6%
18.0%
37.5%

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Answer: B. 19.6%

February is 8,000 orders and March is 9,200. The April target is 11,000, and 11,000 / 9,200 = 1.196, an increase of 19.6%. 37.5% measures from February instead of March, and 15.0% repeats March's change.

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