1. executive chalk is financed solely by common stock and has outstanding 25m shares with a market price of $10 per share. it now announces that it intends to issue $160m old debt and to use the proceeds to buy back common stock (from brealey, myers, and allen.) a. how is the market price of the stock affected by the announcement? b. how many shares can the company buy back with the $160m of new debt that it issues? c. what is the market value of the firm (equity plus debt) after the change in capital structure? d. what is the debt ratio (d/e) after the change in structure? e. who (if anyone) gains or loses?

Suppose general motors demands labor according to the labor demand function 푤푤= 40−0. 5퐸퐸, where 푤푤 is the hourly wage and 퐸퐸 is the number of employees. the united auto workers union has a utility function given by 푈푈=푊푊∗퐸퐸. a.in 1984, the united auto workers union started negotiations with general motors by assuming that they were a monopoly union. find the wage and employment demands that the united auto workers union would have demanded before any bargaining began. b.if general motors and the united auto workers union both had excellent bargaining representatives, would this be the final labor contract? if not, then explain in words and graphically where they would end up after the bargaining process.

At cooly cola, we are testing the appeal of our new diet one cola. in a taste test of 250 randomly chosen cola drinkers, 200 consumers preferred diet one cola to the leading brand. assuming that the sample were large enough, the large-sample 95% confidence interval for the population proportion of cola drinkers that prefer diet one cola would be:

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