"this year is expected to be a great one for selling walking shoes in georgia. at very low prices, only the most efficient shoemakers are able to sell. there are two shoe producers that operate with the most cost-effective equipment and skilled personnel, each of which can put 1000 shoes in the market at $10.00. at a higher price, eight more shoemakers will enter the market. each producer makes 1200 shoes at $25.00 per pair. if the price goes to $40.00 per pair, the existing firms increase production to 1400 each, plus four small shops open, each of which produces 500 shoes."

Historically, 12 percent of a mail-order firm's repeat charge-account customers have an incorrect current address in the firm's computer database. the number of customers out of 19 who have an incorrect address in the database is a binomial random variable with n = 19 and 2formula36.mml = 0.12.

You have $22,000 to invest in a stock portfolio. your choices are stock x with an expected return of 11 percent and stock y with an expected return of 13 percent. if your goal is to create a portfolio with an expected return of 11.74 percent, how much money will you invest in stock x? in stock y?

Instructions: use the following information to construct the 2000 balance sheet and income statement for carolina business machines. round all numbers to the nearest whole dollar. all numbers are in thousands of dollars. be sure to read the whole problem before you jump in and get started. at the end of 1999 the firm had $43,000 in gross fixed assets. in 2000 they purchased an additional $14,000 of fixed asset equipment. accumulated depreciation at the end of 1999 was $21,000. the depreciation expense in 2000 is $4,620. at the end of 2000 the firm had $3,000 in cash and $3,000 in accounts payable. in 2000 the firm extended a total of $9,000 in credit to a number of their customers in the form of accounts receivable. the firm generated $60,000 in sales revenue in 2000. their cost of goods sold was 60 percent of sales. they also incurred salaries and wages expense of $10,000. to date the firm has $1,000 in accrued salaries and wages. they borrowed $10,000 from their local bank to finance the $15,000 in inventory they now have on hand. the firm also has $7,120 invested in marketable securities. the firm currently has $20,000 in long-term debt outstanding and paid $2,000 in interest on their outstanding debt. over the firm's life, shareholders have put up $30,000. eighty percent of the shareholder's funds are in the form of retained earnings. the par value per share of carolina business machines stock is