On August 15, Calvin offers to sell Clarissa his laptop for $500 cash. He tells Clarissa she can only accept the offer by mailing the money to arrive by September 2 at his university mailbox. Clarissa mails a check for $500 to Calvin, and the money arrives in the mailbox by August 30th, although Calvin doesn't retrieve his mail (along with Clarissa's payment) until September 4th. Did Clarissa accept Calvin's offer?
a. No, because Clarissa didn't meet all the requirements of the offer.
b. Yes, because Clarissa paid Calvin's asking price for the laptop.
c. Yes, because the money arrived at Calvin's mailbox before September 2nd.
d. No, because Calvin did not actually receive the money until September 4th.

Which of the following accurately describes a surplus? a. consumer demand for a certain car is below the number of cars that are produced. b. the production costs for a certain car are below the sale price of that car. c. a reduction in the cost of steel enables a car company to reduce the sale price of its cars. d. a car company tries to charge too high a price for a car and has to reduce the price. 2b2t

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?

Afinancing project has an initial cash inflow of $42,000 and cash flows of −$15,600, −$22,200, and −$18,000 for years 1 to 3, respectively. the required rate of return is 13 percent. what is the internal rate of return? should the project be accepted?