The average basket size per purchase per agent in the fashion category in April is Rp.180.000,-. A third of agents made only 1 purchase that month. A third made 2 purchases that month. The rest made an average of 3.5 purchases that month. What % of agents in April bought fashion?  Sales of ABC Fashion category comes from two merchants: Verry Venka (VV) and Vuka Lavak (VL). VV typically constitutes 40% of the fashion sales in ABC. VV's COO came to us and said, "Let's make our relationship stronger. We would like to be the merchant of your agents." VV decided to launch a free shipping promotion for ABC agents during the 2ndhalf of May. The promotion is expected to grow VV's sales at ABC by 45% for the remainder of the month, over current forecasted figures for the rest of May. In addition to that, a third of VL's sales are expected to be shifted to VV. If this happens, by what % will ABC's overall fashion sales exceed target in May? If this happens, what % of fashion sales will come from VV in May?

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  1. The average basket size per purchase per agent in the fashion category in April is Rp.180.000,-. A third of agents made only 1 purchase that month. A third made 2 purchases that month. The rest made an average of 3.5 purchases that month. What % of agents in April bought fashion? 
  2. Sales of ABC Fashion category comes from two merchants: Verry Venka (VV) and Vuka Lavak (VL). VV typically constitutes 40% of the fashion sales in ABC. VV's COO came to us and said, "Let's make our relationship stronger. We would like to be the merchant of your agents." VV decided to launch a free shipping promotion for ABC agents during the 2ndhalf of May. The promotion is expected to grow VV's sales at ABC by 45% for the remainder of the month, over current forecasted figures for the rest of May. In addition to that, a third of VL's sales are expected to be shifted to VV. If this happens, by what % will ABC's overall fashion sales exceed target in May?
  3. If this happens, what % of fashion sales will come from VV in May? 
  4. The month-to-month retention of agents in ABC is 70%. This means, 70% of agents continue shopping at ABC the following month. 30% of agents are one-off and will not comeback to ABC. In March, the split between new and recurring agents were 50-50. What is the share of new agents in May that are new, out of 3,046 agents?
Sales of ABC by category, in millions of Rupiah
2016
101
131
86
118
157
46
66
109
Electronics
300
330
132
261
Fashion
Supermarket
463
616
801
376
1 Other
Mar
Apr
May target May 1st to 15th
Number of
1,838
2,389
3,046
457
transacting
agents
Transcribed Image Text:Sales of ABC by category, in millions of Rupiah 2016 101 131 86 118 157 46 66 109 Electronics 300 330 132 261 Fashion Supermarket 463 616 801 376 1 Other Mar Apr May target May 1st to 15th Number of 1,838 2,389 3,046 457 transacting agents
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