The Adams Company is closely held and, therefore, cannot generate reliable inputs with which to use the CAPM method for estimating a company’s cost of internal equity. Adams’s bonds yield 10.28%, and the firm’s analysts estimate that the firm’s risk premium on its stock over its bonds is 4.95%. Based on the bond-yield-plus-risk-premium approach, Adams’s cost of internal equity is:

The management of a supermarket wants to adopt a new promotional policy of giving a free gift to every customer who spends > a certain amount per visit at this supermarket. the expectation of the management is that after this promotional policy is advertised, the expenditures for all customers at this supermarket will be normally distributed with a mean of $95 and a standard deviation of $20. if the management wants to give free gifts to at most 10% of the customers, what should the amount be above which a customer would receive a free gift?