Question: A small community has two heating services that offer annual contracts for home heating: Alpine Heating and Badger Furnaces. Currently, 25% of homeowners have service

 A small community has two heating services that offer annual contracts

A small community has two heating services that offer annual contracts for home heating: Alpine Heating and Badger Furnaces. Currently, 25% of homeowners have service contracts with Alpine, 30% have service contract with Badger, and the remainder do not have service contracts. Both companies launch aggressive advertising campaigns to attract new customers, with the following effects on service contracts purchases for the next several years: each year 35% of homeowners with no current service contract decide to purchase a contract from Alpine and 40% decide to purchase one from Badger. In addition, 10% of the previous customers at each company decide to switch to the other company, and 5% decide they do not want a service contract. a. Draw a transition diagram. . Write a transition matrix. C. What percentage of homes will have service contracts with Alpine next year? d. The year after next

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