How do you calculate the percentage of customers (80%) who have to buy the warranty to keep a stable profit margin in the last question?
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Sorry for the inconvenience. I'm referring to the question under analysis 2: Which percentage of customers has to buy the warranty in order to keep WyCar’s profit margin from model “300” stable? I'm confused about how could we get the 80% in the answer?
Sorry for the inconvenience. I'm referring to the question under analysis 2: Which percentage of customers has to buy the warranty in order to keep WyCar’s profit margin from model “300” stable?
I see Idea 1, 2, and 3 as sections

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Victoria, happy to help but I struggle to understand the question for now. Can you provide more details as to what you don't understand?
Also, adding here a resource for common terms that show up in case interviews. Might help you and others as well who stumble upon this case:
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Hi Victoria,
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Which specific part of the case are you referring to? And where is your confusion? (Screenshots help!)

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Hi Victoria,
We need more details on your question. Happy to keep talking un private, just send me a message.
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