Hutter Corporation declared a $0.50 per share cash dividend on its common shares. The company has 45,000 shares authorized, 24,000 shares issued, and 18,000 shares of common stock outstanding. The journal entry to record the dividend declaration is:

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Debit Retained Earnings $9,000; credit Common Dividends Payable $9,000.

Debit Retained Earnings $22,500; credit Common Dividends Payable $22,500.

Debit Common Dividends Payable $9,000; credit Cash $9,000.

Debit Common Dividends Payable $12,000; credit Cash $12,000.

Debit Retained Earnings $12,000; credit Common Dividends Payable $12,000.

Trinity trucking signs a contract with olsen oil to purchase all of the fuel for its fleet of trucks for the next year from olsen at a price of $3.00 per gallon. at the time trinity and olsen sign the contract, the market price for gasoline was $3.25 per gallon, and trinity had an expert report predicting that the price would rise to at least $4.25 per gallon in the upcoming six months. instead, the price dropped to $2.00 per gallon. may trinity rescind the contract with olsen due to its mistaken belief about the future of the price of gasoline?

Avx home entertainment, inc., recently began a “no-hassles” return policy. a sample of 500 customers who recently returned items showed 400 thought the policy was fair, 32 thought it took too long to complete the transaction, and the rest had no opinion. on the basis of this information, make an inference about customer reaction to the new policy. (round your answers to 1 decimal place.)

Who is better at multi-tasking? in business, employees are often asked to perform a complex task when their atten-tion is divided (i.e., multi-tasking). human factors (may 2014) published a study designed to determine whether video game players are better than non–video game play-ers at multi-tasking. each in a sample of 60 college stu-dents was classified as a video game player or a non-player. participants entered a street crossing simulator and were asked to cross a busy street at an unsigned intersec-tion. the simulator was designed to have cars traveling at various high rates of speed in both directions. during the crossing, the students also performed a memory task as a distraction. two variables were measured for each student: (1) a street crossing performance score (measured out of 100 points) and (2) a memory task score (measured out of 20 points). the researchers found no differences in either the street crossing performance or memory task score of video game players and non-gamers. “these results,” say the researchers, “suggest that action video game players [and non-gamers] are equally susceptible to the costs of dividing attention in a complex task”