WGU C723 QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS
FOR BUSINESS PRE ASSESSMENT.
EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 100% PASS
1 A car stereo company is planning to introduce a new product into the market. It faces stiff
competition from two other organizations with similar products. The company's marketing
manager has asked the production manager to perform a break-even analysis using three
different price points. The marketing manager will use the results to set a price for the new
product.
Which type of method is a break-even analysis?
O Expert judgment
O Quantitative
O Qualitative
O Payback table - ANS Quantitative
cuz break-even analysis using price points involves numbers
Quantitative or Quantity=Number
2 Over the last three months, a small rural hospital has seen a sudden increase in the number of
patients coming to the emergency room for non-emergency treatment. The hospital
administrator wants to know why there is a sudden increase in demand and is considering
three options to find out. Classify each method available to the administrator as qualitative or
quantitative.
Answer options may be used more than once or not at all. Select your answers from the pull-
down list.
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,Including an open-ended question on the intake form asking patients, "Please explain why you
selected this ER for
treatment." Intake forms can be sorted into non-emergency and emergency categories; the
"non-emergency"
responses can be analyzed to determine reasons the hospital was selected
Qualitative
Pulling the hospital's records for the last 10 years and sorting by medical codes to check for
similar patterns in past
years. A regression - ANS Qualitative
cuz a why you selected question is an opinion.
Qualitative or Quality=Opinion
Qualitative
cuz the question can't be counted like 1+2+3+4+5=15.
Qualitative or Quality=Opinion
Quantitative cuz how many ideas are counted for ER visits.
Quantitative or Quantity=Number
3 A local music store that hosts live music has been a very popular hangout for years. However,
the owner is concerned that the increasing popularity of new methods of music delivery will
soon make the business obsolete. The owner is considering building a
small recording studio in the basement of the store. The nearest professional studio is 50 miles
away, so a new studio may appeal to local musicians and increase foot traffic. The owner has all
the costs of building the studio and has also estimated how much revenue might increase due
to the new studio (from studio rental fees, increased food and drink sales if more people come
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,to the live music shows, etc.). The owner will use this information to determine the net present
value for the studio.
Which method of analysis should this owner use to make a determination?
O Decision tree
O Expert judgment
O Quantitative
O Qualitative - ANS Quantitative
cuz counting number cost of building, food, drink, etc. Quantitative or Quantity=Number.
4 How should quantitative analysis improve subsequent decision making for a firm that wants
to determine whether its revenue has
been increasing or decreasing for the past 10 years?
O It will help the company see why it has been making a profit
O It will let the company determine the average revenue it made.
O It will help the company see which customers bought its items.
O It will help the company see the competitors' average revenue. - ANS It will let the
company determine the average revenue it made.
cuz revenue is the question to answer
5 An employee working for the Highway Safety Department in Albany, New York has the job to
predict the automobile accidents in
Albany for the next year. The employee currently has monthly data on the following variables
for the city of Albany: the number of
automobiles registered, the sales of alcoholic beverages, and the rainfall in inches.
How can this employee realistically predict the accidents in Albany for next year?
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, O Use the ratio of accidents versus each of the other variables and then average the three
values
O Use a multiple regression equation using accident as the dependent variable and others as
independent variables
O Use a multiple regression equation using automobiles registered as the dependent variable
and others as independent
variables
O Use the sales of alcoholic beverages because the other variables are less significant -
ANS Use a multiple regression equation using accident as the dependent variable and others
as independent variables.
cuz accidents the question, are the dependent variable the reason why is because rain, alcohol,
distracted, etc.
6 A marketing manager for a corporation that markets a broad range of food brands needs to
plan a monthly marketing, advertising,
and sales promotion budget for next year and is looking at monthly sales. One brand shows
dramatic fluctuations in sales over the past three years.
How should this manager use quantitative analysis to make budgeting decisions for this brand?
O Compute quarterly averages based on each month in the quarter
O Use last year's budget amounts regardless of average sales values
O Compute seasonality indices for each month to forecast next year's monthly sales
O Use average sales values for all of the months over the past two years - ANS Compute
seasonality (seasonal) indices (indexes) for each month to forecast next year's monthly sales.
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FOR BUSINESS PRE ASSESSMENT.
EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 100% PASS
1 A car stereo company is planning to introduce a new product into the market. It faces stiff
competition from two other organizations with similar products. The company's marketing
manager has asked the production manager to perform a break-even analysis using three
different price points. The marketing manager will use the results to set a price for the new
product.
Which type of method is a break-even analysis?
O Expert judgment
O Quantitative
O Qualitative
O Payback table - ANS Quantitative
cuz break-even analysis using price points involves numbers
Quantitative or Quantity=Number
2 Over the last three months, a small rural hospital has seen a sudden increase in the number of
patients coming to the emergency room for non-emergency treatment. The hospital
administrator wants to know why there is a sudden increase in demand and is considering
three options to find out. Classify each method available to the administrator as qualitative or
quantitative.
Answer options may be used more than once or not at all. Select your answers from the pull-
down list.
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,Including an open-ended question on the intake form asking patients, "Please explain why you
selected this ER for
treatment." Intake forms can be sorted into non-emergency and emergency categories; the
"non-emergency"
responses can be analyzed to determine reasons the hospital was selected
Qualitative
Pulling the hospital's records for the last 10 years and sorting by medical codes to check for
similar patterns in past
years. A regression - ANS Qualitative
cuz a why you selected question is an opinion.
Qualitative or Quality=Opinion
Qualitative
cuz the question can't be counted like 1+2+3+4+5=15.
Qualitative or Quality=Opinion
Quantitative cuz how many ideas are counted for ER visits.
Quantitative or Quantity=Number
3 A local music store that hosts live music has been a very popular hangout for years. However,
the owner is concerned that the increasing popularity of new methods of music delivery will
soon make the business obsolete. The owner is considering building a
small recording studio in the basement of the store. The nearest professional studio is 50 miles
away, so a new studio may appeal to local musicians and increase foot traffic. The owner has all
the costs of building the studio and has also estimated how much revenue might increase due
to the new studio (from studio rental fees, increased food and drink sales if more people come
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,to the live music shows, etc.). The owner will use this information to determine the net present
value for the studio.
Which method of analysis should this owner use to make a determination?
O Decision tree
O Expert judgment
O Quantitative
O Qualitative - ANS Quantitative
cuz counting number cost of building, food, drink, etc. Quantitative or Quantity=Number.
4 How should quantitative analysis improve subsequent decision making for a firm that wants
to determine whether its revenue has
been increasing or decreasing for the past 10 years?
O It will help the company see why it has been making a profit
O It will let the company determine the average revenue it made.
O It will help the company see which customers bought its items.
O It will help the company see the competitors' average revenue. - ANS It will let the
company determine the average revenue it made.
cuz revenue is the question to answer
5 An employee working for the Highway Safety Department in Albany, New York has the job to
predict the automobile accidents in
Albany for the next year. The employee currently has monthly data on the following variables
for the city of Albany: the number of
automobiles registered, the sales of alcoholic beverages, and the rainfall in inches.
How can this employee realistically predict the accidents in Albany for next year?
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, O Use the ratio of accidents versus each of the other variables and then average the three
values
O Use a multiple regression equation using accident as the dependent variable and others as
independent variables
O Use a multiple regression equation using automobiles registered as the dependent variable
and others as independent
variables
O Use the sales of alcoholic beverages because the other variables are less significant -
ANS Use a multiple regression equation using accident as the dependent variable and others
as independent variables.
cuz accidents the question, are the dependent variable the reason why is because rain, alcohol,
distracted, etc.
6 A marketing manager for a corporation that markets a broad range of food brands needs to
plan a monthly marketing, advertising,
and sales promotion budget for next year and is looking at monthly sales. One brand shows
dramatic fluctuations in sales over the past three years.
How should this manager use quantitative analysis to make budgeting decisions for this brand?
O Compute quarterly averages based on each month in the quarter
O Use last year's budget amounts regardless of average sales values
O Compute seasonality indices for each month to forecast next year's monthly sales
O Use average sales values for all of the months over the past two years - ANS Compute
seasonality (seasonal) indices (indexes) for each month to forecast next year's monthly sales.
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