Reba Dixon is a fifth-grade school teacher who earned a salary of $38,300 in 2018. She is 45 years old and has been divorced for four years. She receives $1,255 of alimony payments each month from her former husband (divorced in 2016). Reba also rents out a small apartment building. This year Reba received $50,400 of rental payments from tenants and she incurred $19,656 of expenses associated with the rental.

Reba and her daughter Heather (20 years old at the end of the year) moved to Georgia in January of this year. Reba provides more than one-half of Heather’s support. They had been living in Colorado for the past 15 years, but ever since her divorce, Reba has been wanting to move back to Georgia to be closer to her family. Luckily, last December, a teaching position opened up and Reba and Heather decided to make the move. Reba paid a moving company $2,120 to move their personal belongings, and she and Heather spent two days driving the 1,448 miles to Georgia.

Reba rented a home in Georgia. Heather decided to continue living at home with her mom, but she started attending school full-time in January at a nearby university. She was awarded a $3,110 partial tuition scholarship this year, and Reba helped out by paying the remaining $500 tuition cost. If possible, Reba thought it would be best to claim the education credit for these expenses.

Reba wasn't sure if she would have enough items to help her benefit from itemizing on her tax return. However, she kept track of several expenses this year that she thought might qualify if she was able to itemize. Reba paid $5,910 in state income taxes and $12,610 in charitable contributions during the year. She also paid the following medical-related expenses for herself and Heather:

Shortly after the move, Reba got distracted while driving and she ran into a street sign. The accident caused $1,010 in damage to the car and gave her whiplash. Because the repairs were less than her insurance deductible, she paid the entire cost of the repairs. Reba wasn’t able to work for two months after the accident. Fortunately, she received $2,110 from her disability insurance. Her employer, the Central Georgia School District, paid 60% of the premiums on the policy as a nontaxable fringe benefit and Reba paid the remaining 40% portion.

A few years ago, Reba acquired several investments with her portion of the divorce settlement. This year she reported the following income from her investments: $2,310 of interest income from corporate bonds and $1,610 interest income from the City of Denver municipal bonds. Overall, Reba’s stock portfolio appreciated by $12,110 but she did not sell any of her stocks.

Heather reported $6,420 of interest income from corporate bonds she received as gifts from her father over the last several years. This was Heather’s only source of income for the year.

Reba had $10,000 of federal income taxes withheld by her employer. Heather made $1,000 of estimated tax payments during the year. Reba did not make any estimated payments. Reba had qualifying insurance for purposes of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Required:

Is Reba allowed to file as a head of household or single?

Determine the amount of FICA taxes Reba was required to pay on her salary. (Round your final answer to the nearest whole dollar amount.)

Determine Heather’s federal income taxes due or payable. Use Tax Rate Schedule, Dividends and Capital Gains Tax Rates, Estates and Trusts for reference. (Round your intermediate computations and final answer to the nearest whole dollar amount.)

Reba Dixon is a fifth-grade school teacher who earned a salary of $38,000 in 2020. She is 45 years old and has been divorced for four years. She receives $1,200 of alimony payments each month from her former husband (divorced on 12/31/2016). Reba also rents out a small apartment building. This year Reba received $50,000 of rental payments from tenants and she incurred $19,500 of expenses associated with the rental.

Reba and her daughter Heather (20 years old at the end of the year) moved to Georgia in January of this year. Reba provides more than one-half of Heather’s support. They had been living in Colorado for the past 15 years, but ever since her divorce, Reba has been wanting to move back to Georgia to be closer to her family. Luckily, last December, a teaching position opened up and Reba and Heather decided to make the move. Reba paid a moving company $2,010 to move their personal belongings, and she and Heather spent two days driving the 1,426 miles to Georgia.

Reba rented a home in Georgia. Heather decided to continue living at home with her mom, but she started attending school full-time in January and throughout the rest of the year at a nearby university. She was awarded a $3,000 partial tuition scholarship this year, and Reba helped out by paying the remaining $500 tuition cost. If possible, Reba thought it would be best to claim the education credit for these expenses.

Reba wasn't sure if she would have enough items to help her benefit from itemizing on her tax return. However, she kept track of several expenses this year that she thought might qualify if she was able to itemize. Reba paid $5,800 in state income taxes and $12,500 in charitable contributions during the year. She also paid the following medical-related expenses for herself and Heather:

Shortly after the move, Reba got distracted while driving and she ran into a street sign. The accident caused $900 in damage to the car and gave her whiplash. Because the repairs were less than her insurance deductible, she paid the entire cost of the repairs. Reba wasn’t able to work for two months after the accident. Fortunately, she received $2,000 from her disability insurance. Her employer, the Central Georgia School District, paid 60 percent of the premiums on the policy as a nontaxable fringe benefit and Reba paid the remaining 40 percent portion.

A few years ago, Reba acquired several investments with her portion of the divorce settlement. This year she reported the following income from her investments: $2,200 of interest income from corporate bonds and $1,500 interest income from City of Denver municipal bonds. Overall, Reba’s stock portfolio appreciated by $12,000, but she did not sell any of her stocks.

Heather reported $6,200 of interest income from corporate bonds she received as gifts from her father over the last several years. This was Heather’s only source of income for the year.

Reba had $10,000 of federal income taxes withheld by her employer. Heather made $1,000 of estimated tax payments during the year. Reba did not make any estimated payments. Reba had qualifying insurance for purposes of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Comprehensive Problem 8-84 Part a-1

a. Determine Reba’s federal income taxes due or taxes payable for the current year. Use Tax Rate Schedule for reference. (Do not round intermediate values. Round your final answers to the nearest whole dollar amount. Leave no answer blank. Enter zero if applicable.)

2020 Tax Rate Schedules

Individuals

Schedule X-Single

Schedule Y-1-Married Filing Jointly or Qualifying Widow(er)

Schedule Z-Head of Household

Schedule Y-2-Married Filing Separately

High school students across the nation compete in a financial capability challenge each year by taking a National Financial Capability Challenge Exam. Students who score in the top 18 percent are recognized publicly for their achievement by the Department of the Treasury. Assuming a normal distribution, how many standard deviations above the mean does a student have to score to be publicly recognized? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

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Lloyd is completing high school and wondering about his future. He needs to make a choice between pursuing a bachelor’s degree in business or pursuing an MBA. Lloyd lives in two periods, the first relating to his education and the second relating to employment commencing after graduation and extending through retirement. In the first period, he completes his education. In the second period, he works in the labor market. Lloyd determines to attend the University of Utah.

If Lloyd pursues a bachelor’s degree at the U of U, he will spend $52,000 on education in the first period and earn $2.4 million in the second period. If he pursues an MBA, he will spend $139,000 on education in the first period and earn $2.8 million in the second period. Lloyd seeks to maximize his lifetime earnings.

Suppose that Lloyd can lend and borrow money at a 7% rate of interest between the two periods. Which degree will Lloyd pursue? Explain using both mathematic calculation and verbal description.

Scenario

Frank has only had a brief introduction to statistics when he was in high school 12 years ago, and that did not cover inferential statistics. He is not confident in his ability to answer some of the problems posed in the course.

As Frank's tutor, you need to provide Frank with guidance and instruction on a worksheet he has partially filled out. Your job is to help him understand and comprehend the material. You should not simply be providing him with an answer as this will not help when it comes time to take the test. Instead, you will be providing a step-by-step breakdown of the problems including an explanation on why you did each step and using proper terminology.

What to Submit

To complete this assignment, you must first download the word document, and then complete it by including the following items on the worksheet:

Incorrect Answers

Correct any wrong answers. You must also explain the error performed in the problem in your own words.

Partially Finished Work

Complete any partially completed work. Make sure to provide step-by-step instructions including explanations.

Blank Questions

Show how to complete any blank questions by providing step-by-step instructions including explanations.

Your step-by-step breakdown of the problems, including explanations, should be present within the word document provided. You must also include an Excel workbook which shows all your calculations performed.

WORKSHEET:

Deliverable 02 – Worksheet

Instructions: The following worksheet is shown to you by a student who is asking for help. Your job is to help the student walk through the problems by showing the student how to solve each problem in detail. You are expected to explain all of the steps in your own words.

Key:

<i> - This problem is an incorrect. Your job is to find the errors, correct the errors, and explain what they did wrong.

<p> - This problem is partially finished. You must complete the problem by showing all steps while explaining yourself.

<b> - This problem is blank. You must start from scratch and explain how you will approach the problem, how you solve it, and explain why you took each step.

<p> Assume that a randomly selected subject is given a bone density test. Those tests follow a standard normal distribution. Find the probability that the bone density score for this subject is between -1.53 and 1.98

Student’s answer: We first need to find the probability for each of these z-scores using Excel.

For -1.53 the probability from the left is 0.0630, and for 1.98 the probability from the left is 0.9761.

Continue the solution:

<b> The U.S. Airforce requires that pilots have a height between 64 in. and 77 in. If women’s heights are normally distributed with a mean of 65 in. and a standard deviation of 3.5 in, find the percentage of women that meet the height requirement.

Answer and Explanation:

<i> Women’s pulse rates are normally distributed with a mean of 69.4 beats per minute and a standard deviation of 11.3 beats per minute. What is the z-score for a woman having a pulse rate of 66 beats per minute?

Student’s answer:

Let

            Corrections:

<b> What is the cumulative area from the left under the curve for a z-score of -0.875? What is the area on the right of that z-score?

Answer and Explanation:

<i> If the area under the standard normal distribution curve is 0.6573 from the right, what is the corresponding z-score?

Student’s answer: We plug in “=NORM.INV(0.6573, 0, 1)” into Excel and get a z-score of 0.41.

Corrections:

<p> Manhole covers must be a minimum of 22 in. in diameter, but can be as much as 60 in. Men have shoulder widths that are normally distributed with a mean of 18.2 and a standard deviation of 2.09 in. Assume that a manhole cover is constructed with a diameter of 22.5 in. What percentage of men will fit into a manhole with this diameter?

Student’s answer: We need to find the probability that men will fit into the manhole. The first step is to find the probability that the men’s shoulder is less than 22.5 inches.

Continue the solution:

Reba Dixon is a fifth-grade school teacher who earned a salary of $38,000 in 2020. She is 45 years old and has been divorced for four years. She receives $1,200 of alimony payments each month from her former husband (divorced in 2016). Reba also rents out a small apartment building. This year Reba received $50,000 of rental payments from tenants and she incurred $19,500 of expenses associated with the rental.

Reba and her daughter Heather (20 years old at the end of the year) moved to Georgia in January of this year. Reba provides more than one-half of Heather’s support. They had been living in Colorado for the past 15 years, but ever since her divorce, Reba has been wanting to move back to Georgia to be closer to her family. Luckily, last December, a teaching position opened up and Reba and Heather decided to make the move. Reba paid a moving company $2,250 to move their personal belongings, and she and Heather spent two days driving the 1,600 miles to Georgia.

Reba rented a home in Georgia. Heather decided to continue living at home with her mom, but she started attending school full time in January and throughout the rest of the year at a nearby university. She was awarded a $3,360 partial tuition scholarship this year, and Reba helped out by paying the remaining $500 tuition cost. If possible, Reba thought it would be best to claim the education credit for these expenses.

Reba wasn't sure if she would have enough items to help her benefit from itemizing on her tax return. However, she kept track of several expenses this year that she thought might qualify if she was able to itemize. Reba paid $6,520 in state income taxes and $14,100 in charitable contributions during the year. She also paid the following medical-related expenses for herself and Heather:

Shortly after the move, Reba got distracted while driving and she ran into a street sign. The accident caused $1,020 in damage to the car and gave her whiplash. Because the repairs were less than her insurance deductible, she paid the entire cost of the repairs. Reba wasn’t able to work for two months after the accident. Fortunately, she received $2,000 from her disability insurance. Her employer, the Central Georgia School District, paid 60 percent of the premiums on the policy as a nontaxable fringe benefit and Reba paid the remaining 40 percent portion.

A few years ago, Reba acquired several investments with her portion of the divorce settlement. This year she reported the following income from her investments: $2,200 of interest income from corporate bonds and $1,740 interest income from City of Denver municipal bonds. Overall, Reba’s stock portfolio appreciated by $13,510, but she did not sell any of her stocks.

Heather reported $6,400 of interest income from corporate bonds she received as gifts from her father over the last several years. This was Heather’s only source of income for the year.

Reba had $11,270 of federal income taxes withheld by her employer. Heather made $1,120 of estimated tax payments during the year. Reba did not make any estimated payments. Reba had qualifying insurance for purposes of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

a. Determine Reba’s federal income taxes due or taxes payable for the current year. Use Tax Rate Schedule for reference. (Do not round intermediate values. Leave no answer blank. Enter zero if applicable.)

2020 Tax Rate Schedules

Individuals

Schedule X-Single

Schedule Y-1-Married Filing Jointly or Qualifying Widow(er)

Schedule Z-Head of Household

Schedule Y-2-Married Filing Separately

Kristen, who was active in competitive sports throughout high school, has decided to run a marathon with some of her college friends. She has started training and monitors her miles, time, and calories using a wrist band and training app. She is 25 years old, 5 ft, 8 in. tall, and weighs 135 lb. She eats all sorts of foods, likes fruits and vegetables, but tries to avoid greasy foods. She says coffee is her downfall—she drinks 4–6 cups a day. She doesn't like sweets, although she keeps ice cream in her freezer. A family history notes that her mother needed angioplasty to treat occluded arteries shortly after menopause and that her father is not at risk for any chronic conditions. Although she would eventually like to have children, Kristen is not pregnant now. An analysis of a 24-hour dietary recall shows the following:

2090 cal

352 g carbohydrate (67% of calories)

41 g total fiber

34 mg iron

958 g calcium

690 mcg RAE vitamin A

98 g protein (19% of calories)

33 g fat (14% of calories) (7 g saturated fat, 1 g trans fat, 1.5 g omega-3 fatty acid, 99 mg cholesterol)

3343 mg sodium

158 mg vitamin C

5.0 mcg vitamin D

8.7 mg TE vitamin E

586 mcg DFE folic acid

283 mg choline

1. How many calories does Kristen need to maintain her weight?

2. Is she eating enough to support daily workouts?

3. Describe three health-promoting aspects of Kristen's diet?

4. Make three suggestions that could improve Kristen's diet.

The term “Marketing Myopia” was coined by the late Harvard Business School marketing professor, Theodore Levitt, in a 1960 HBR article (republished in 2004). The “heart of the article,” according to Deighton, a distinguished Harvard Professor, is Levitt’s argument that companies are too focused on producing goods or services and don’t spend enough time understanding what customers want or need. Therefore, he “encouraged executives to switch from a production orientation to a consumer orientation.” As Levitt used to tell his students, “People don’t want a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole!”

“The genius of the original article is that it is so easy to be myopic when it comes to marketing,” says Deighton. “Any marketer is obligated to be concerned with programs, tactics, campaigns, etc. Unfortunately, the clock never stops long enough to answer the question, ‘Why are you doing what you are doing?’ So it’s far too easy to lose sight of the big picture.” The other thing that made the article so significant at the time of its publication is that it reminded CEOs that marketing is part of their job: “[Levitt] tells the leader of the organization: you are in business because you have a customer. Therefore you have to think about marketing,” Deighton explains.

In 2010, Craig Smith at INSEAD, Minette Drumwright at UT Austin, and Mary Gentile at Babson, published a paper criticizing Marketing Myopia. They posited that marketers have taken Levitt’s advice to an extreme, creating a new kind of short sightedness, marked by a single-minded focus on the customer, a narrow definition of the customer, and a failure to address the multiple stakeholders who have arisen out of the “changed societal context of business”. There is no doubt that Levitt believed the entire corporation must be viewed as a customer-creating and customer-satisfying organism, and Deighton admits that this is one of the potential pitfalls of Levitt’s original idea: it “puts great trust in the consumer.” In his original article, Levitt acknowledged how difficult it can be to listen to customers; he wrote: “Consumers are unpredictable, varied, fickle, stupid, shortsighted, stubborn, and generally bothersome.” But Smith, Drumwright, and Gentile go even further, arguing that it’s not just about listening to consumers but about hearing all of the stakeholders who contribute to your company’s success.

1. Do you agree or disagree with Smith, Drumwright and Gentile’s assessment of the concept of Marketing Myopia? Why or why not? What stakeholder(s) might be important to listen to in formulating a new take on marketing Myopia and why?

3.Problem 3

The Business Graduate School at RUM is studying the test scores from this year's candidates. In particular, we are interested to know if the there is a dependent relationship between the candidates' verbal and quantitative scores.  

Use an alpha = 0.025.

What is the critical value for this test?

Select one:

a. 11.14

b. 7.38

c. 3.84

d. 5.02

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