Refer to the balance sheet above. If in 2006 Luther has 10.2 million shares outstanding and these shares are trading at? $16 per? share, then using the market value of? equity, the? debt-equity ratio for Luther in 2006 is closest? to:

A.3.52
B.1.76
C.0.88
D.2.46

Afirm plans to begin production of a new small appliance. the manager must decide whether to purchase the motors for the appliance from a vendor at $10 each or to produce them in-house. either of two processes could be used for in-house production; process a would have an annual fixed cost of $200,000 and a variable cost of $7 per unit, and process b would have an annual fixed cost of $175,000 and a variable cost of $8 per unit. determine the range of annual volume for which each of the alternatives would be best. (round your first answer to the nearest whole number. include the indifference value itself in this answer.)