General inertia corporation made a distribution of $50,000 to henry tiara in partial liquidation of the company on december 31, 20x3. henry owns 500 shares (50%) of general inertia. the distribution was in exchange for 250 shares of henry's stock in the company. after the partial liquidation, henry continued to own 50% of the remaining stock in general inertia. at the time of the distribution, the shares had a fair market value of $200 per share. henry's income tax basis in the shares was $100 per share. general inertia had total e& p of $800,000 at the time of the distribution. what are the tax consequences to henry because of the transaction?

Aproduction line has three machines a, b, and c, with reliabilities of .96, .86, and .85, respectively. the machines are arranged so that if one breaks down, the others must shut down. engineers are weighing two alternative designs for increasing the line’s reliability. plan 1 involves adding an identical backup line, and plan 2 involves providing a backup for each machine. in either case, three machines (a, b, and c) would be used with reliabilities equal to the original three. a. compute overall system reliability under plan 1. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability b. compute overall system reliability under plan 2. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability c. which plan will provide the higher reliability? plan2plan1