Suppose that you are the economic advisor to a local government that has to deal with a politically embarrassing surplus that was caused by a price floor that the government recently imposed. your first suggestion is to get rid of the price floor, but the politicians don’t want to do that. instead, they present you with the following list of options that they hope will get rid of the surplus while keeping the price floor. identify each one as either could work or can’t work.

An annuity that goes on indefinitely is called a perpetuity. the payments of a perpetuity constitute a/an series. the equation is: a stock with no maturity is an example of a perpetuity. quantitative problem: you own a security that provides an annual dividend of $170 forever. the security’s annual return is 9%. what is the present value of this security? round your answer to the nearest cent. $

Horace society is planning its annual western fair raceway gala. the gala committee has assembled the following expected costs for the event: dinner (per person) $10 gaming token and program (per person) $2 prize payouts $4,300 tickets and advertising $800 private box suite rental $1,700 lottery licenses $200 the committee members would like to charge $40 per person for the evening’s activities.required: 1. what is the break-even point for the dinner-dance (in terms of the number of persons who must attend)? 2. assume that last year only 200 persons attended the dinner-dance. if the same number attend this year, what price per ticket must be charged in order to break even? 3. refer to the original data ($40 ticket price per person). prepare a cvp graph for the dinner- dance from zero tickets up to 600 tickets sold.

Your father's employer was just acquired, and he was given a severance payment of $375,000, which he invested at a 7.5% annual rate. he now plans to retire, and he wants to withdraw $35,000 at the end of each year, starting at the end of this year. how many years will it take to exhaust his funds, i.e., run the account down to zero? a. 22.50 b. 23.63 c. 24.81 d. 26.05 e. 27.35