You’ve observed the following returns on crash-n-burn computer’s stock over the past five years: 17 percent, –4 percent, 20 percent, 12 percent, and 10 percent. a. what was the arithmetic average return on the company’s stock over this five-year period? (do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 1 decimal place, e. g., 32.1.) b-1. what was the variance of the company’s returns over this period? (do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 5 decimal places, e. g., .16161.) b-2. what was the standard deviation of the company’s returns over this period?

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Adrawback of short-term contracting as an alternative to making a component in-house is thata. it is the most-integrated alternative to performing an activity so the principal company has no control over the agent. b. the supplying firm has no incentive to make any transaction-specific investments to increase performance or quality. c. it fails to allow a long planning period that individual market transactions provide. d. the buying firm cannot demand lower prices due to the lack of a competitive bidding process.

Garrett is an executive vice president at samm hardware. he researches a proposal by a larger company, maximum hardware, to combine the two companies. by analyzing past performance, conducting focus groups, and interviewing maximum employees, garrett concludes that maximum has poor profit margins, sells shoddy merchandise, and treats customers poorly. what actions should garrett and samm hardware take? a. turn down the acquisition offer and prepare to resist a hostile takeover. b. attempt a friendly merger and use managerial hubris to improve results at maximum. c. welcome the acquisition and use knowledge transfer to impart sam hardware's management practices. d. do nothing; the two companies cannot combine without samm hardware's explicit consent.