The fed cuts the federal funds rate and the discount rate and the prime goes down to 3.5 percent. al truistyk owns an exercise center and needs to upgrade his equipment in order to meet his customers' needs. the equipment costs $275,000 and the lender requires a 10 percent down payment. al must borrow $250,000 and the lender agrees to a 60-month fixed principal fixed interest rate loan with a rate of prime + 4 percent. a. construct an amortization table for the first 3 months of this loan. b. instead of a fixed interest loan, the lender gave al a variable rate loan of prime + 4 percent. using the internet find the current prime lending rate. construct an amortization table listing al's interest payments for the first 3 months of this loan if he borrowed the money on january 1, 2013.

Carmen co. can further process product j to produce product d. product j is currently selling for $20 per pound and costs $15.75 per pound to produce. product d would sell for $38 per pound and would require an additional cost of $8.55 per pound to produce. what is the differential revenue of producing product d?

Frolic corporation has budgeted sales and production over the next quarter as follows. the company has 4100 units of product on hand at july 1. 10% of the next months sales in units should be on hand at the end of each month. october sales are expected to be 72000 units. budgeted sales for september would be: july august september sales in units 41,500 53,500 ? production in units 45,700 53,800 58,150

Stocks a, b, and c are similar in some respects: each has an expected return of 10% and a standard deviation of 25%. stocks a and b have returns that are independent of one another; i. e., their correlation coefficient, r, equals zero. stocks a and c have returns that are negatively correlated with one another; i. e., r is less than 0. portfolio ab is a portfolio with half of its money invested in stock a and half in stock b. portfolio ac is a portfolio with half of its money invested in stock a and half invested in stock c. which of the following statements is correct? a. portfolio ab has a standard deviation that is greater than 25%.b. portfolio ac has an expected return that is less than 10%.c. portfolio ac has a standard deviation that is less than 25%.d. portfolio ab has a standard deviation that is equal to 25%.e. portfolio ac has an expected return that is greater than 25%.