Benny began taking people on tours of historic sites in his town. he started to make a nice profit with the tours, particularly with tourists passing through the town on the way to the mountains. benny began to hear of some rival tour groups that were planning to start giving tours in the area. benny sent a memo to his secretary asking, "how can we shut down other potential tour groups because we want all the business? " one rival company had started operations, but benny still had 85 percent of the business. his plan was to run the rival out of business and prevent the start-up of any other tour operations in his town. benny decided that he would offer to do a free advertising brochure to any business that would put up a poster advertising his tour group and agree not to advertise or mention in any way any other tour group. benny was particularly successful in reaching that agreement with hotels and restaurants in his town because of his likeable personality and the business that he began referring to those specific hotels and restaurants. when james, who ran a rival tour group heard about benny's actions, he was furious and accused him of an antitrust violation because he was trying to keep all the tour action for himself. what must be proven against benny in order to establish that he violated antitrust laws through conduct involving monopolization?

answer; intellectual property protection;

of the three mortgage options that demarco and tanya have to choose from, the balloon payment mortgage would be their best option, over adjustable payment and fixed payment plans.ultimately, the balloon payment plan would save demarco and tanya overall, in interest, would cost less monthly, and they would only have to make these payments for 8 years, opposing to 30 years for adjustable or fixed payment plans. 

overall, demarco and tanya would save $80,811 if they chose balloon payments over fixed payments, and would save $116,711 if they choose balloon payments over adjustable payments. benefits with choosing fixed payments over adjustable payments is that, in the end, the payments will still be $836.30 a month, while with adjustable payments, the initial monthly payments will be $763.38 to $1082.70 a month, ultimately leading to a more costly purchase. benefits with choosing fixed payments over balloon payments are not present. benefits in choosing adjustable payments over is that it has a lower interest rate, and starts with lower monthly payments initially. benefits in choosing adjustable payments over balloon payments include a lower interest rate, and lower initial monthly payments. benefits in choosing balloon payments over fixed payments include lower interest rates, lower overall price, lower monthly payments, takes less time to pay off, and does not require a downpayment. benefits in choosing balloon payments over adjustable payments include, lower monthly payments (when averaged), takes less time to pay off, and lower overall price.

hence, option c, balloon payments, is the best option for demarco and tanya to make this purchase, for it will save them a minimum of $80811, and a maximum of $116,711.