Suppose you have a project that has a 0.3 chance of tripling your investment in a year and a 0.7 chance of halving your investment in a year. What is the standard deviation of the rate of return on this investment? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a decimal rounded to 4 places.)

Any point on a country's production possibilities frontier represents a combination of two goods that an economy:

Coop inc. owns 40% of chicken inc., both coop and chicken are corporations. chicken pays coop a dividend of $10,000 in the current year. chicken also reports financial accounting earnings of $20,000 for that year. assume coop follows the general rule of accounting for investment in chicken. what is the amount and nature of the book-tax difference to coop associated with the dividend distribution (ignoring the dividends received deduction)?

Amanufacturer has paid an engineering firm $200,000 to design a new plant, and it will cost another $2 million to build the plant. in the meantime, however, the manufacturer has learned of a foreign company that offers to build an equivalent plant for $2,100,000. what should the manufacturer do?