Buyers market

In one of the trainings on creative thinking that I had attended I was given this 9 point puzzle. It’s quite interesting and simple to solve. But most of the times we tend to complicate simpler things. Try it out!

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Connect all the nine points above with exactly 4 connected straight lines without lifting your pencil off the paper.

Ping me to know the right answer

This puzzle was part of the training. Here goes the puzzle.

A man buys coconuts for $5. He sells the coconut for $3. He does this everyday and becomes a millionaire. How?

I am not going to post the answer unless you give it a try.

You have 999999. You can use add (+), sub (-), div (%), mul (*) symbols. The answer should be 100. How will you do this?

Ping me if you are unable to find the solution. I am sure you will as this is a much simpler one.