Ethan purchases a house for $250,000. He borrows $200,000 from StarCross Bank and gives the bank a mortgage on the house for this amount. StarCross Bank fails to record the mortgage. Ethan then applies to borrow $200,000 from Pentalon Bank. Pentalon Bank reviews the real estate recordings and finds no mortgage recorded against the property, so it lends Ethan $200,000. Pentalon Bank records its mortgage. Later, Ethan defaults on both loans. In this case, which of the following would be true in case of the foreclosure, if possible, on the collateral?
A. StarCross Bank can foreclose because they made the first loan.
B. Pentalon Bank can foreclose because they made a record of the mortgage.
C. The collateral has to be returned to Ethan since there is a violation of the recording statute.
D. None of the parties involved can claim ownership of the collateral as it passes into the public domain

True or false: a fitted model with more predictors will necessarily have a lower training set error than a model with fewer predictors.

Areal estate agent is considering changing her cell phone plan. there are three plans to choose from, all of which involve a monthly service charge of $20. plan a has a cost of $.42 a minute for daytime calls and $.17 a minute for evening calls. plan b has a charge of $.52 a minute for daytime calls and $.15 a minute for evening calls. plan c has a flat rate of $80 with 275 minutes of calls allowed per month and a charge of $.38 per minute beyond that, day or evening.a. determine the total charge under each plan for this case: 150 minutes of day calls and 70 minutes of evening calls in a month. (do not round intermediate calculations. round your answer to 2 decimal places. omit the "$" sign in your response.)c. if the agent will use the service for daytime calls, over what range of call minutes will each plan be optimal? (round each answer to the nearest whole number.include the indifference point itself in each answer.)d. suppose that the agent expects both daytime and evening calls. at what point (i.e., percentage of total call minutes used for daytime calls) would she be indifferent between plans a and b?

Exercise 4-9presented below is information related to martinez corp. for the year 2017.net sales $1,399,500 write-off of inventory due to obsolescence $80,440cost of goods sold 788,200 depreciation expense omitted by accident in 2016 43,600selling expenses 65,800 casualty loss 53,900administrative expenses 53,500 cash dividends declared 43,300dividend revenue 22,100 retained earnings at december 31, 2016 1,042,400interest revenue 7,420 effective tax rate of 34% on all items exercise 4-9 presented below is information relateexercise 4-9 presented below is information relate prepare a multiple-step income statement for 2017. assume that 61,500 shares of common stock are outstanding. (round earnings per share to 2 decimal places, e.g. 1.49.)prepare a separate retained earnings statement for 2017. (list items that increase retained earnings first.)