Rodney parks his car at Car Stack Parking Lot, Inc. On the back of the parking stub provided to Rodney, there's a statement typed in large letters: "NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DAMAGE TO CARS." When Rodney returns, his car has been dented by the Car Stack attendant, who was attempting to park more cars on the lot. According to law, the statement on the stub is an exculpatory agreement that's

A. enforceable against Rodney only if he had the opportunity to park elsewhere.
B. not enforceable against Rodney because it's contrary to public policy.
C. not enforceable against Rodney because he instructed the attendant to be careful around his car.

D. enforceable against Rodney regardless of circumstances.

The sticky-price theory asserts that the output prices of some goods and services adjust slowly to changes in the price level. suppose firms announce the prices for their products in advance, based on an expected price level of 100 for the coming year. many of the firms sell their goods through catalogs and face high costs of reprinting if they change prices. the actual price level turns out to be 110. faced with high menu costs, the firms that rely on catalog sales choose not to adjust their prices. sales from catalogs will

Companies in the u.s. car rental market vary greatly in terms of the size of the fleet, the number of locations, and annual revenue. in 2011 hertz had 320,000 cars in service and annual revenue of approximately $4.2 billion. the following data show the number of cars in service (1000s) and the annual revenue ($ millions) for six smaller car rental companies (auto rental news website, august 7, 2012). excel file: data14-09.xls if required, enter negative values as negative numbers. a. select a scatter diagram with the number of cars in service as the independent variable. b. what does the scatter diagram developed in part (a) indicate about the relationship between the two variables? c. use the least squares method to develop the estimated regression equation (to 3 decimals). ŷ = + x d. for every additional car placed in service, estimate how much annual revenue will change. by $ e. fox rent a car has 11,000 cars in service. use the estimated regression equation developed in part (c) to predict annual revenue for fox rent a car. round your answer to nearest whole value. $ million hide feedback partially correct

Slow ride corp. is evaluating a project with the following cash flows: year cash flow 0 –$12,000 1 5,800 2 6,500 3 6,200 4 5,100 5 –4,300 the company uses a 11 percent discount rate and an 8 percent reinvestment rate on all of its projects. calculate the mirr of the project using all three methods using these interest rates.