An increase in the price of hot dogs from $1.60 to $2.00 per pound increased the average number of hamburgers demanded per capita per week from 1 to 1.4. assuming that all other economic variables were held constant, the arc cross-price elasticity of demand between hot dogs and hamburgers is

a. –1.5, which indicates that the two goods are substitutes.
b. 1.5, which indicates that the two goods are complements.
c. 1.5, which indicates that the two goods are substitutes.
d. –1.5, which indicates that the two goods are complements.

Jason day company had bonds outstanding with a maturity value of $300,000. on april 30, 2017, when these bonds has an unamortized discount of $10,000, they were called in at 104. to pay for these bonds, day had issued other bonds a month earlier bearing a lower interest rate. the newly issued bonds had a life of 10 years. the new bonds were issued at 103 (face value $300,000).

Problem 2-18 job-order costing for a service company [lo2-1, lo2-2, lo2-3]speedy auto repairs uses a job-order costing system. the company's direct materials consist of replacement parts installed in customer vehicles, and its direct labor consists of the mechanics' hourly wages. speedy's overhead costs include various items, such as the shop manager's salary, depreciation of equipment, utilities, insurance, and magazine subscriptions and refreshments for the waiting room. the company applies all of its overhead costs to jobs based on direct labor-hours. at the beginning of the year, it made the following estimates: direct labor-hours required to support estimated output 10,000fixed overhead cost $ 90,000variable overhead cost per direct labor-hour $ 1.00 required: 1. compute the predetermined overhead rate.2. during the year, mr. wilkes brought in his vehicle to replace his brakes, spark plugs, and tires. the following information was available with respect to his job: direct materials $ 600direct labor cost $ 180direct labor-hours used 2 compute mr. wilkes' total job cost. 3. if speedy establishes its selling prices using a markup percentage of 30% of its total job cost, then how much would it have charged mr. wilkes?

Portia grant is an employee who is paid monthly. for the month of january of the current year, she earned a total of $8,388. the fica tax for social security is 6.2% of the first $118,500 earned each calendar year and the fica tax rate for medicare is 1.45% of all earnings. the futa tax rate of 0.6% and the suta tax rate of 5.4% are applied to the first $7,000 of an employee's pay. the amount of federal income tax withheld from her earnings was $1,391.77. what is the total amount of taxes withheld from the portia's earnings?