Which of the following is an example of a sunk cost?A) the electricity purchased by a horse breederB) the $100,000 a shoe factory will pay for the leather it uses to make shoesC) the $6,000 Tommy's insurance company pays him after an accidentD) after you start watching a movie, the $8 you paid for the ticketE) the $10 being spent on gasoline purchased by a traveling salesperson

Gus needs to purée his soup while it's still in the pot. what is the best tool for him to use? a. potato masher b. immersion blender c. rotary mixer d. whisk

Monthly price data for mdltx and ekwax from yahoo finance is contained in the excel spreadsheet for this exercise. there are 37 months of price data for the period from september 2009 to september 2012. (note: these prices already incorporate dividend payments.) the 36 monthly returns for each fund are also provided. calculate average (arithmetic) monthly return and standard deviation for each fund. you can use the excel functions average, stdev to derive these stats. annualize these statistics. use the correl function in excel to derive the correlation coefficient between the two sets of returns. (annual correlation is the same as monthly correlation. hence, no need to annualize this stat.) using the annualized statistics derived in step 1, compute the expected return and standard deviation for portfolios containing from 0% to 100% mdltx (and 100% to 0% ekwax) by 10% increments. graph the resulting portfolios. based on your analysis, is there any potential benefit to diversification across these two funds? explain. of the 11 portfolios you graphed, which are efficient?

In financial language, a "quarter" is one quarter of a year, or three months. your annual sales are $123,000. the sales are spread evenly over four quarters except that sales in the last quarter are double any other quarter because of the holidays. what are your sales in the first quarter of the year?