Round hammer is comparing two different capital structures: an all-equity plan (plan i) and a levered plan (plan ii). under plan i, the company would have 180,000 shares of stock outstanding. under plan ii, there would be 130,000 shares of stock outstanding and $1.49 million in debt outstanding. the interest rate on the debt is 6 percent and there are no taxes.
a. if ebit is $225,000, what is the eps for each plan? b. if ebit is $475,000, what is the eps for each plan? c. what is the break-even ebit?

The monthly demand equation for an electric utility company is estimated to be p equals 60 minus left parenthesis 10 superscript negative 5 baseline right parenthesis x, where p is measured in dollars and x is measured in thousands of killowatt-hours. the utility has fixed costs of $3 comma 000 comma 000 per month and variable costs of $32 per 1000 kilowatt-hours of electricity generated, so the cost function is upper c left parenthesis x right parenthesis equals 3 times 10 superscript 6 baseline plus 32 x. (a) find the value of x and the corresponding price for 1000 kilowatt-hours that maximize the utility's profit. (b) suppose that the rising fuel costs increase the utility's variable costs from $32 to $38, so its new cost function is upper c 1 left parenthesis x right parenthesis equals 3 times 10 superscript 6 baseline plus 38 x. should the utility pass all this increase of $6 per thousand kilowatt-hours on to the consumers?