Classify each of costs as one of the six business functions in the value chain. a. Cost of a prime-time TV ad featuring Smucker'* Fruit & Honey Fruit Spreads
b. Salary of engineers who are designing the new plant's layout
c. Depreciation on Orrville, Ohio, plant
d. Depreciation on delivery vehicles
e. Transportation costs to deliver Folgers Coffees to retailers such as Kroger, Walmart, and Save-A-l_ot
f. Costs of a customer support center website
g. Plant manager's salary
h. Purchase of strawberries used in Smucker'* Strawberry Preserves
i. Depreciation on food research lab

Agood for which demand increases as income rises is and a good for which demand increases as income falls is

1. descriptive statistics quickly describe large amounts of data can predict future stock returns with surprising accuracy statisticians understand non-numeric information, like colors refer mainly to patterns that can be found in data 2. a 15% return on a stock means that 15% of the original purchase price of the stock returns to the seller at the end of the year 15% of the people who purchased the stock will see a return the stock is worth 15% more at the end of the year than at the beginning the stock has lost 15% of its value since it was originally sold 3. a stock purchased on january 1 cost $4.35 per share. the same stock, sold on december 31 of the same year, brought in $4.75 per share. what was the approximate return on this stock? 0.09% 109% 1.09% 9% 4. a stock sells for $6.99 on december 31, providing the seller with a 6% annual return. what was the price of the stock at the beginning of the year? $6.59 $1.16 $7.42 $5.84

The 39 percent and 38 percent tax rates both represent what is called a tax "bubble." suppose the government wanted to lower the upper threshold of the 39 percent marginal tax bracket from $335,000 to $208,000. what would the new 39 percent bubble rate have to be? (do not round intermediate calculations. enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places,e.g., 32.16.)