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Chapters and their answers
Found money in the Microsoft bill — rerouted, never removed

$43,200 a month in licenses, each waiting for a user.

2,760 of 4,200 paid seats are active (65.7%).
counted from Contoso's illustrative records·priced at Microsoft’s published price of $30 per Copilot seat, assumed as your Copilot seat price until you set your own · Set it
4,200 paid Copilot seats100%
In use this period 2,760Assigned, not used yet 1,280Never given to anyone 160
Add it up
WhatThe workingAmount
Assigned, not used yet1,280 seats × $30$38,400
Never given to anyone160 seats × $30$4,800
Every month at this seat price$43,200
A year at this rate$518,400

472 more seats waiting for a user sit on 5 other paid subscriptions — counted, not priced.

12 months at this rate; a priced count, not a measured result.

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The move
The reassignment plan is running — 3 of 1,443 seats have moved to people who asked.
Waiting for a user — a paid seat nobody has been assigned to yet, or assigned and not yet opened.
On the illustrative organization this part of the detail is not drawn: it sets the figures against the strategy’s cost, and a ratio to that cost would let a reader work out Aristo’s price. In your own tenant, this tab carries the full working.