X-treme Vitamin Company is considering two investments, both of which cost $22,000. The cash flows are as follows: Year Project A Project B 1 $ 25,000 $ 22,000 2 12,000 11,000 3 8,000 14,000 Use Appendix B for an approximate answer but calculate your final answer using the formula and financial calculator methods. a-1. Calculate the payback period for Project A and Project B.

The typical consumer's food basket in the base year 2015 is as follows: 30 chickens at $4 each 10 hams at $5 each 10 steaks at $8 each a chicken feed shortage causes the price of chickens to rise to $5.00 each in the year 2016. hams rise to $7.00 each, and the price of steaks is unchanged. a. calculate the change in the "cost-of-eating" index between 2015 and 2016. year cost of the basket 2015 $ 2016 $ instructions: enter your responses rounded to one decimal place. the official cost-of-eating index has by %. b. suppose that consumers are completely indifferent between two chickens and one ham. for this example, how large is the substitution bias in the official "cost-of-eating" index? the in the cost-of-eating index is %. the of inflation in the cost of eating reflects substitution bias.

Which of the following tends to result in a decrease in the selling price of houses in an area? a. an increase in the population of the city or town. b. an increase in the labor costs of construction. c. an increase in the income of new residents in the city or town. d. an increase in mortgage interest rates.

The director of the federal trade commission (ftc) bureau of consumer protection warned that the agency would bring enforcement action against small businesses that select one: a. failed to inform the public about network failures in a timely manner b. failed to transmit sensitive data c. did not report security breaches to law enforcement d. lacked adequate policies and procedures to protect consumer data.