Sean and Jenny own a home in Boulder City, Nevada, near Lake Mead. During the year, they rented the house for 40 days for $3,000 and used it for personal use for 18 days. The house remained vacant for the remainder of the year. The expenses for the house included $14,000 in mortgage interest, $3,500 in property taxes, $1,100 in utilities, $1,300 in maintenance, and $10,900 in depreciation. What is the deductible net loss for the rental of their home (without considering the passive loss limitation)? Use the Tax Court method for allocation of expenses.

The beginning inventory is expected to be 2,000 cases. expected sales are 10,000 cases, and the company wishes to begin the next period with an inventory of 1,000 cases. the number of cases the company must purchase during the month is multiple choice 9,000 cases. 10,000 cases. 11,000 cases. 13,000 cases.

Which of the following best explains why a large company can undersell small retailers? a. large companies can offer workers lower wages because they provide more jobs. b. large companies can pay their employees less because they do unskilled jobs. c. large companies can negotiate better prices with wholesalers. d. large companies have fewer expenses associated with overhead.

The wall street journal reported that walmart stores inc. is planning to lay off 2,300 employees at its sam's club warehouse unit. approximately half of the layoffs will be hourly employees (the wall street journal, january 25-26, 2014). suppose the following data represent the percentage of hourly employees laid off for 15 sam's club stores. 55 56 44 43 44 56 60 62 57 45 36 38 50 69 65 (a) compute the mean and median percentage of hourly employees being laid off at these stores. (b) compute the first and third quartiles. (c) compute the range and interquartile range. (d) compute the variance and standard deviation. (e) do the data contain any outliers? (f) based on the sample data, does it appear that walmart is meeting its goal for reducing the number of hourly employees?