14. What are the highest tax rates for each of the following scenarios?
____. Operating income from a hotel earned by a foreign corporation (excluding branch profits tax)
____. Interest income earned by a foreign corporation from a US borrower
____. Net rental income earned by an U.S. individual (exclude the passthrough deduction)
____. Capital gain earned by an U.S. individual
____. Interest income earned by a U.S. corporation
____. Capital gain earned by an U.S. corporation
____. Depreciation recapture on the sale of U.S. real estate (Section 1250 property) for an individual
____. Depreciation recapture on the sale of U.S. real estate (Section 1245 property) for an individual
In: Accounting
Using the demand and supply diagrams (one for each market), show what short-run changes in price and quantity would be expected in the following markets if terrorism-related worries about air safety cause travelers to shy away from air travel. Each graph should contain the original and new demand and supply curves, and the original and new equilibrium prices and quantities. For each market, write one sentence explaining why each curve shifts or does not shift.
The market for air travel.
The market for rail travel.
The market for hotel rooms in Hawaii.
The market for gasoline.
In: Economics
1. What, if anything, does each of the following quotations tell you about the demand elasticity? Explain.
a. "I drink two cups of coffee every morning regardless of the price."
b. "Attendance at the ball park went down when they increased the ticket price, but in spite of the decreased attendance, more money was taken in.”
c. "When the newspaper raised its price, the number of newspapers sold dropped by 20%.
d. My budget is $10 a week for cigarettes. I don’t care what happens to the price of cigarettes, once my budget is gone, I chew gum!
In: Economics
Sunny Park Tailors has been asked to make three different types of wedding suits for separate customers. The table below highlights the time taken in hours for cutting and sewing? (process 1) and delivery? (process 2) of each of the suits.
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Times Taken for Different Activities (hours)
Suit Cut and Sew Deliver
1 7 2
2 4 3
3 5 6
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For the schedule developed using the? Johnson's rule, the total length of time taken to complete the three suits? (including delivery)? =
Of the two developed? schedules, which rule gets the schedule finished sooner.??????????????????????????
In: Operations Management
In an old-fashioned amusement park ride, passengers stand inside a 5.0-m-diameter hollow steel cylinder with their backs against the wall. The cylinder begins to rotate about a vertical axis. Then the floor on which the passengers are standing suddenly drops away! If all goes well, the passengers will "stick" to the wall and not slide. Clothing has a static coefficient of friction against steel in the range 0.62 to 1.0 and a kinetic coefficient in the range 0.40 to 0.70. A sign next to the entrance says "No children under 30 kg allowed."
Q: What is the minimum angular speed, in rpm, for which the ride is safe?
In: Physics
In an old-fashioned amusement park ride, passengers stand inside a 4.5-m-diameter hollow steel cylinder with their backs against the wall. The cylinder begins to rotate about a vertical axis. Then the floor on which the passengers are standing suddenly drops away! If all goes well, the passengers will "stick" to the wall and not slide. Clothing has a static coefficient of friction against steel in the range 0.65 to 1.0 and a kinetic coefficient in the range 0.40 to 0.70. A sign next to the entrance says "No children under 30 kg allowed." What is the minimum angular speed, in rpm, for which the ride is safe?
In: Physics
On September 7, the billing date, Verna had a balance due of $565.85 on her credit card. Assume that the interest rate is 1.1% per month. Suppose that Verna's bank uses the average daily balance method. Answer parts (a) through (d). Sept. 11 Payment $280.00 Sept. 23 Charge: Airline ticket $332.00 Sept. 24 Charge: Hotel bill $190.01 Oct. 2 Charge: Clothing $84.91 a) Determine Verna's average daily balance for the billing period from September 7 to October 7. The average daily balance for the billing period was $
In: Finance
Use Excel
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), in conjunction with the Forest Service, publishes information to assist companies in estimating the cost of building a temporary road for such activities as a timber sale. Such roads are generally built for one or two seasons of use for limited traffic and are designed with the goal of reestablishing vegetative cover on the roadway and adjacent disturbed area within ten years after the termination of the contract, permit, or lease. The timber sale contract requires out sloping, removal of culverts and ditches, and building water bars or cross ditches after the road is no longer needed. As part of this estimation process, the company needs to estimate haul costs. The USDA publishes variable costs in dollars per cubic-yard-mile of hauling dirt according to the speed with which the vehicle can drive. Speeds are mainly determined by the road width, the sight distance, the grade, the curves and the turnouts. Thus, on a steep, narrow, winding road, the speed is slow; and on a flat, straight, wide road, the speed is faster. Shown below are data on speed, cost per cubic yard for a 12 cubic yard end-dump vehicle, and cost per cubic yard for a 20 cubic yard bottom-dump vehicle. Use these data and simple regression analysis to develop models for predicting the haul cost by speed for each of these two vehicles. Discuss the strength of the models. Based on the models, predict the haul cost for 35 mph and for 45 mph for each of these vehicles.
| SPEED (MPH) | HAUL COST 12-CUBIC-YARD END-DUMP VEHICLE $ PER CUBIC YD. | HAUL COST 20-CUBIC-YARD BOTTOM-DUMP VEHICLE $ PER CUBIC YD. |
| 10 | $2.46 | $1.98 |
| 15 | $1.64 | $1.31 |
| 20 | $1.24 | $0.98 |
| 25 | $0.98 | $0.77 |
| 30 | $0.82 | $0.65 |
| 40 | $0.62 | $0.47 |
| 50 | $0.48 | $0.40 |
In: Statistics and Probability
Use Excel
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), in conjunction with the Forest Service, publishes information to assist companies in estimating the cost of building a temporary road for such activities as a timber sale. Such roads are generally built for one or two seasons of use for limited traffic and are designed with the goal of reestablishing vegetative cover on the roadway and adjacent disturbed area within ten years after the termination of the contract, permit, or lease. The timber sale contract requires out sloping, removal of culverts and ditches, and building water bars or cross ditches after the road is no longer needed. As part of this estimation process, the company needs to estimate haul costs. The USDA publishes variable costs in dollars per cubic-yard-mile of hauling dirt according to the speed with which the vehicle can drive. Speeds are mainly determined by the road width, the sight distance, the grade, the curves and the turnouts. Thus, on a steep, narrow, winding road, the speed is slow; and on a flat, straight, wide road, the speed is faster. Shown below are data on speed, cost per cubic yard for a 12 cubic yard end-dump vehicle, and cost per cubic yard for a 20 cubic yard bottom-dump vehicle. Use these data and simple regression analysis to develop models for predicting the haul cost by speed for each of these two vehicles. Discuss the strength of the models. Based on the models, predict the haul cost for 35 mph and for 45 mph for each of these vehicles.
| SPEED (MPH) | HAUL COST 12-CUBIC-YARD END-DUMP VEHICLE $ PER CUBIC YD. | HAUL COST 20-CUBIC-YARD BOTTOM-DUMP VEHICLE $ PER CUBIC YD. |
| 10 | $2.46 | $1.98 |
| 15 | $1.64 | $1.31 |
| 20 | $1.24 | $0.98 |
| 25 | $0.98 | $0.77 |
| 30 | $0.82 | $0.65 |
| 40 | $0.62 | $0.47 |
| 50 | $0.48 | $0.40 |
In: Statistics and Probability
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), in conjunction with the Forest Service, publishes information to assist companies in estimating the cost of building a temporary road for such activities as a timber sale. Such roads are generally built for one or two seasons of use for limited traffic and are designed with the goal of reestablishing vegetative cover on the roadway and adjacent disturbed area within ten years after the termination of the contract, permit, or lease. The timber sale contract requires out sloping, removal of culverts and ditches, and building water bars or cross ditches after the road is no longer needed. As part of this estimation process, the company needs to estimate haul costs. The USDA publishes variable costs in dollars per cubic-yard-mile of hauling dirt according to the speed with which the vehicle can drive. Speeds are mainly determined by the road width, the sight distance, the grade, the curves and the turnouts. Thus, on a steep, narrow, winding road, the speed is slow; and on a flat, straight, wide road, the speed is faster. Shown below are data on speed, cost per cubic yard for a 12 cubic yard end-dump vehicle, and cost per cubic yard for a 20 cubic yard bottom-dump vehicle. Use these data and simple regression analysis to develop models for predicting the haul cost by speed for each of these two vehicles. Discuss the strength of the models. Based on the models, predict the haul cost for 35 mph and for 45 mph for each of these vehicles.
| SPEED (MPH) | HAUL COST 12-CUBIC-YARD END-DUMP VEHICLE $ PER CUBIC YD. | HAUL COST 20-CUBIC-YARD BOTTOM-DUMP VEHICLE $ PER CUBIC YD. |
| 10 | $2.46 | $1.98 |
| 15 | $1.64 | $1.31 |
| 20 | $1.24 | $0.98 |
| 25 | $0.98 | $0.77 |
| 30 | $0.82 | $0.65 |
| 40 | $0.62 | $0.47 |
| 50 | $0.48 | $0.40 |
In: Operations Management