Jamie bought her house in 2008 for $395,000. since then, she has deducted $70,000 in depreciation associated with her home office and has spent $45,000 replacing all the old pipes and plumbing. she sells the house on july 1, 2014. her realtor charged $34,700 in commissions. prior to listing the house with the realtor, she spent $300 advertising in the local newspaper. sammy buys the house for $500,000 in cash, assumes her mortgage of $194,000, and pays property taxes of $4,200 for the entire year on december 1, 2014. what is jamie's adjusted basis at the date of the sale and the amount realized?

Which financial component is a mandatory deduction from your gross pay? a. sales tax b. social security tax c. health insurance d. disaster relief fund (drf) e. voluntary deduction

Suppose the price of frozen yogurt, a substitute for ice cream, increases. what happens to equilibrium price and quantity of ice cream? a. the price and quantity of ice cream both increase b. the price and quantity of ice cream both decrease c. the price of ice cream increases and the quantity decreases d. the price of ice cream decreases and the quantity increases

Who is better at multi-tasking? in business, employees are often asked to perform a complex task when their atten-tion is divided (i. e., multi-tasking). human factors (may 2014) published a study designed to determine whether video game players are better than non–video game play-ers at multi-tasking. each in a sample of 60 college stu-dents was classified as a video game player or a non-player. participants entered a street crossing simulator and were asked to cross a busy street at an unsigned intersec-tion. the simulator was designed to have cars traveling at various high rates of speed in both directions. during the crossing, the students also performed a memory task as a distraction. two variables were measured for each student: (1) a street crossing performance score (measured out of 100 points) and (2) a memory task score (measured out of 20 points). the researchers found no differences in either the street crossing performance or memory task score of video game players and non-gamers. “these results,” say the researchers, “suggest that action video game players [and non-gamers] are equally susceptible to the costs of dividing attention in a complex task”