On december 31, sulfur corporation has the following data available: net income $ 170 comma 000 interest expense 30 comma 000 total assets at the beginning of the year 770 comma 000 total assets at the end of the year 900 comma 000 total common stockholders' equity at the beginning of the year 410 comma 000 total common stockholders' equity at the end of the year 290 comma 000
what is return on equity? (round your final answer to two decimal places, x. xx%.)

Astock with a beta of 0.6 has an expected rate of return of 13%. if the market return this year turns out to be 10 percentage points below expectations, what is your best guess as to the rate of return on the stock? (do not round intermediate calculations. enter your answer as a percent rounded to 1 decimal place.)

What preforms the best over the long term? a) bonds b) mutual funds c) stocks d) certificate of deposit

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?