The 1887 dawes act a. established federal railroad rates, making interlocking directorates illegal. b. led to the loss of tribal lands and the erosion of indian cultural traditions. c. guaranteed federal employees an eight-hour day. d. established a federal minimum wage law for women and children.

Guardian inc. is trying to develop an asset-financing plan. the firm has $450,000 in temporary current assets and $350,000 in permanent current assets. guardian also has $550,000 in fixed assets. assume a tax rate of 40 percent. a. construct two alternative financing plans for guardian. one of the plans should be conservative, with 70 percent of assets financed by long-term sources, and the other should be aggressive, with only 56.25 percent of assets financed by long-term sources. the current interest rate is 12 percent on long-term funds and 7 percent on short-term financing. compute the annual interest payments under each plan.

Consider an economy where the government's budget is initially balanced. the production function, consumption function and investment function can be represented as follows y equals k to the power of alpha l to the power of 1 minus alpha end exponent c equals c subscript 0 plus b left parenthesis y minus t right parenthesis i equals i subscript 0 minus d r suppose that taxes increase. what happens to the equilibrium level of output?

Dan mcclure is trying to decide on how many copies of a book to purchase at the start of the upcoming selling season for his bookstore. the book retails at $28.00. the publisher sells the book to dan for $20.00. dan will dispose of all the unsold copies of the book at 75 percent off the retail price, at the end of the season. dan estimates that demand for this book during the season is normal with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 42. a. how many books should dan order to maximize his expected profit? b. given the order quantity in part a, what is dan's expected profit? c. the publisher's variable cost per book is $7.50. given the order quantity in part a, what is the publisher's expected profit?