Five lifeguard towers are lined up along a beach; the leftmost tower is number 1 and the rightmost tower is number 5. Two vendors, players 1 and 2, each have a popsicle stand that can be located next to one of five towers. There are 25 people located next to each tower, and each person will purchase a popsicle from the stand that is closest to him or her. That is, if player 1 locates his stand at tower 2 and player 2 at tower 3, then 50 people (at towers 1 and 2) will purchase from player 1, while 75 (from towers 3, 4, and 5) will purchase from vendor 2. Each purchase yields a profit of $1. Required:
a. Specify the strategy set for each player. Are there any strictly domi nated strategies?
b. Find the set of strategies that survive rationalizability.

Which of the following differentiates cost accounting and financial accounting? a. the primary users of cost accounting are the investors, whereas the primary users of financial accounting are the managers. b. cost accounting measures only the financial information related to the costs of acquiring fixed assets in an organization, whereas financial accounting measures financial and nonfinancial information of a company's business transactions. c. cost accounting measures information related to the costs of acquiring or using resources in an organization, whereas financial accounting measures a financial position of a company to investors, banks, and external parties. d. cost accounting deals with product design, production, and marketing strategies, whereas financial accounting deals mainly with pricing of the products.

On january 1, 2017, sophie's sunlounge owned 4 tanning beds valued at $20,000. during 2017, sophie's bought 3 new beds at a total cost of $14 comma 000, and at the end of the year the market value of all of sophie's beds was $24 comma 000. what was sophie's net investment

Jacob is a member of wcc (an llc taxed as a partnership). jacob was allocated $155,000 of business income from wcc for the year. jacob’s marginal income tax rate is 37 percent. the business allocation is subject to 2.9 percent of self-employment tax and 0.9 percent additional medicare tax. (round your intermediate calculations to the nearest whole dollar a) what is the amount of tax jacob will owe on the income allocation if the income is not qualified business income? b) what is the amount of tax jacob will owe on the income allocation if the income is qualified business income (qbi) and jacob qualifies for the full qbi duduction?