Curtis invests $250,000 in a city of athens bond that pays 7% interest. alternatively, curtis could have invested the $250,000 in a bond recently issued by initech, inc. that pays 9% interest with similar risk as the city of athens bond. assume that curtis's marginal tax rate is 24%. how much explicit tax would curtis incur on interest earned on the initech, inc. bond?

Aproduction line has three machines a, b, and c, with reliabilities of .96, .86, and .85, respectively. the machines are arranged so that if one breaks down, the others must shut down. engineers are weighing two alternative designs for increasing the line’s reliability. plan 1 involves adding an identical backup line, and plan 2 involves providing a backup for each machine. in either case, three machines (a, b, and c) would be used with reliabilities equal to the original three. a. compute overall system reliability under plan 1. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability b. compute overall system reliability under plan 2. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability c. which plan will provide the higher reliability? plan2plan1