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Market sizing and business arithmetic

Part of the Consulting learning and recruiting path. Read the explanation and example, attempt the task, then open the self-check.

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From foundations to a work sample, with sources, tasks and self-checks.

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Understand

Define geography, customer, period and unit before sizing. Build top-down or bottom-up estimates, show ranges and cross-check with another method. Keep people, transactions, units and money separate.

Worked example

Illustrative annual spend: 100,000 customers × 2 visits/month × 30 per visit × 12 = 72 million.

Examples and numbers are educational, not employer questions, live market data or hiring criteria.

Practise and keep your output

Estimate annual campus coffee sales with ranges and cross-check against shop capacity.

Keep inputs and sources, assumptions, steps, results and uncertainties in your own document. Attempt independently before checking below.

After attempting: answer and self-check

Separate assumptions from facts. Check duplicate customers, holidays and whether the result exceeds plausible capacity.

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