Franklin corporation is considering an expansion project. the necessary equipment could be purchased for $15 million and shipping and installation costs are another $500,000. the project will also require an initial $2 million investment in net operating working capital. if the company's tax rate is 40%, what is the project's initial investment outlay (in millions)?

How does sociology account for the cause of drug and alcohol addiction?

Voters commonly condemn politicians for being insincere, but politicians often must disguise their true feelings when they make public statements. if they expressed their honest views—about, say, their party's policies—then achieving politically necessary compromises would be much more difficult. clearly, the very insincerity that people decry shows that our government is functioning well. which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines this reasoning? (a) achieving political compromises is not all that is necessary for the proper functioning of a government. (b) some political compromises are not in the best long-term interest of the government. (c) voters often judge politicians by criteria other than the sincerity with which they express their views. (d) a political party's policies could turn out to be detrimental to the functioning of a government. (e) some of the public statements made by politicians about their party's policies could in fact be sincere.

Which statement presents a counterclaim to james cross giblin's viewpoint? egyptian hieroglyphs provide information about the country's history, medicine, science, and laws. the rosetta stone allowed people to read ancient egyptian writing. learning how to read hieroglyphs is the best way to understand the ancient culture of the egyptians. digging up ancient egyptian tombs teaches us more about the way people lived than hieroglyphs do