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This is the ZIMSEC O-Level Business Studies question paper for Paper 2 from June 2025. Use it for exam practice under timed conditions.
2 Section A: Data Response [25 marks| Answer all questions in this section. 1 Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow. RM Footwear (Pvt Ltd RM Footwear (Pvt) Ltd is a shoe manufacturing firm that has been in business for many years. The firm has been supplying school shoes to retailers and wholesalers and is planning to pursue internal growth through opening its own retail outlet as it seeks to maximise returns on investment. The company has experienced the problem of poor stock management practices over the past two years as some shoe sizes were overstocked and stock-outs were also common. In a management meeting, one of the directors, Muba suggested the need for a thorough market research to gather information about the most popular shoe sizes in the market. The meeting proposed to engage a research company which then carried out a survey from a sample of ten students chosen at random from a particular school. The results from the survey were as follows: shoe sizes $8,5,6,5,6,7,7,7,8,9$ The meeting also recommended that the business adopts a computerised system of managing its stocks. A new computerised stock management system will allow cash tills to automatically record sales while giving information on remaining stock quantities since it intends to open retail outlets. (a) Define the following terms as they are used in the passage. (i) sample, [3] (ii) internal growth. [3] (b) From the information in the passage: (i) calculate the mean [2] (ii) determine the modal shoe size [1] (iii) Comment on the results in b(ii) above. [2] (c) Explain the problems to the business of experiencing stock-outs. (d) Evaluate the significance of introducing a computerised stock [4] management system to RM Footwear (Pvt) Ltd. [10]