Gerard loans Larry $40,000. Larry promises to repay Gerard in 12 months. After 12 months, Larry still has not repaid Gerard. Gerard tells Larry’s wife, Linda, that Gerard will "hold off on suing your husband to get my money back for as long as I feel like it" if Linda will agree in writing to guarantee Larry’s obligation to repay the debt. Linda signs a note promising to guarantee Larry’s debt. What is Linda’s best defense to an action by Gerard to enforce the guarantee?

On january 1, 2015, jon sports has a bond payable of $200,000. during 2015, it pays off $20,000 of the outstanding bond principal and issues a new $70,000 bond. there are no other transactions related to the bond payable account. what is jon sports' december 31, 2015, bond payable balance?

One question from a survey was "how many credit cards do you currently have? " the results of the survey are provided. complete parts (a) through (g) below. click the icon to view the survey results. (a) determine the mean number of credit cards based on the raw data. the mean is 3.113.11 credit cards. (type an integer or a decimal. do not round.) (b) determine the standard deviation number of credit cards based on the raw data. the standard deviation is 1.9111.911 credit cards. (round to three decimal places as needed.) (c) determine a probability distribution for the random variable, x, the number of credit cards issued to an individual. x (# of cards) p(x) x (# of cards) p(x) 1 0.280.28 6 nothing 2 nothing 7 nothing 3 nothing 8 nothing 4 nothing 9 nothing 5 nothing 10 nothing (type integers or decimals. do not round.)

After the 2008 recession, the amount of reserves in the us banking system increased. because of federal reserve actions, required reserves increased from $44 billion to $60 billion. however, banks started holding more reserves than required. by january 2009, banks were holding $900 billion in excess reserves. the federal reserve started paying interest on the excess reserves that the banks held. what possible impact will these unused reserves have on the economy?