The beranek company, whose stock price is now $20, needs to raise $12 million in common stock. underwriters have informed the firm's management that they must price the new issue to the public at $17 per share because of signaling effects. the underwriters' compensation will be 5% of the issue price, so beranek will net $16.15 per share. the firm will also incur expenses in the amount of $80,000. how many shares must the firm sell to net $12 million after underwriting and flotation expenses? round your answer to the nearest whole number.

All of the industries and businesses in the country of marksenia are privately owned and sell products at different prices that are not controlled by the government or any other organizational body. consumers in marksenia are free to buy as much of the products as they like from the businesses they want. the country of marksenia has a

Companies in the u. s. car rental market vary greatly in terms of the size of the fleet, the number of locations, and annual revenue. in 2011 hertz had 320,000 cars in service and annual revenue of approximately $4.2 billion. the following data show the number of cars in service (1000s) and the annual revenue ($ millions) for six smaller car rental companies (auto rental news website, august 7, 2012). excel file: data14-09.xls if required, enter negative values as negative numbers. a. select a scatter diagram with the number of cars in service as the independent variable. b. what does the scatter diagram developed in part (a) indicate about the relationship between the two variables? c. use the least squares method to develop the estimated regression equation (to 3 decimals). ŷ = + x d. for every additional car placed in service, estimate how much annual revenue will change. by $ e. fox rent a car has 11,000 cars in service. use the estimated regression equation developed in part (c) to predict annual revenue for fox rent a car. round your answer to nearest whole value. $ million hide feedback partially correct

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