The company's CFO, Fred Mertz, wants to see a 25% increase in net income over the next year. In other words, his target for next year's net income is $2,250,000. Mertz has made the following observations: - Ricardo's operating margin (EBIT/Sales) was 37.5% this past year. Mertz expects that next year this margin will increase to 40%. - Ricardo's interest expense is expected to remain constant. - Ricardo's tax rate is expected to remain at 40%.

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In 2015, lori assigned a paid-up whole life insurance policy to an irrevocable life insurance trust (ilit) for the benefit of her three children. the ilit contained a crummey provision for the benefit of each child. at the time of the transfer, the whole life insurance policy was valued at $200,000, and since lori had not made any other taxable gifts during her lifetime, she did not owe any gift tax. lori died in 2016, and the face value of the whole life insurance policy of $2,000,000 was paid to the ilit. regarding this transfer, how much is included in lori’s gross estate at her death?

Answer the following questions using the banker’s algorithm: a. illustrate that the system is in a safe state by demonstrating an order in which the processes may complete. b. if a request from process p1 arrives for (1, 1, 0, 0), can the request be granted immediately? c. if a request from process p