The cost of a car battery is a major component of the cost of an electric car. Which confirmatory analytics techniques (including prescriptive analytics and predictive analytics) should a business analyst use to answer the following questions?

a. What is a battery manufacturer’s break-even level of sales, based on the falling prices of car batteries?

b. Should the cost of a car battery be a fixed cost or a variable cost at Tesla?

c. How do profit margins change at differing levels of car battery prices at Rivian, an electric truck manufacturer (and a competitor to Tesla in the electric car space)?