On february 5, 2018, superb rental corporation's board of directors declared a dividend of $ 0.24$0.24, to be paid on marchmarch 18, 20182018, to the shareholders of record as of the close of business on marchmarch 9, 20182018. superbsuperb has 4 comma 500 comma 0004,500,000 shares of $ 0.01$0.01 par-value common stock authorized with 1 comma 500 comma 0001,500,000 shares issued and outstanding. the company has no preferred stock. record the declaration of the dividend and the payment of the dividend. include the proper dates with each journal entry.

Afirm plans to begin production of a new small appliance. the manager must decide whether to purchase the motors for the appliance from a vendor at $10 each or to produce them in-house. either of two processes could be used for in-house production; process a would have an annual fixed cost of $200,000 and a variable cost of $7 per unit, and process b would have an annual fixed cost of $175,000 and a variable cost of $8 per unit. determine the range of annual volume for which each of the alternatives would be best. (round your first answer to the nearest whole number. include the indifference value itself in this answer.)