The equilibrium price of peanut butter is $5. a study comes out that says the fat in peanut buffer is good for your heart. holding all other factors constant, which of the following scenarios could happen?

a. the price of peanut butter increases to $7 because of a supply shift.
b. the price of peanut butter decreases to $4 because of a supply shift.
c. the price of peanut butter decreases to $4 because of a demand shift.
d. the price of peanut butter increases to $7 because of a demand shift.
e. the price of peanut butter increases to $7 because of a demand and a supply shift.

What is one counter argument to the premise that the wealth gap is a serious problem which needs to be addressed?

Heather has been an active participant in a defined benefit plan for 19 years. during her last 6 years of employment, heather earned $42,000, $48,000, $56,000, $80,000, $89,000, and $108,000, respectively (representing her highest-income years). calculate heather’s maximum allowable benefits from her qualified plan (assume that there are fewer than 100 participants). assume that heather’s average compensation for her three highest years is $199,700. calculate her maximum allowable benefits.

On january 8, the end of the first weekly pay period of the year, regis company's payroll register showed that its employees earned $22,760 of office salaries and $70,840 of sales salaries. withholdings from the employees' salaries include fica social security taxes at the rate of 6.20%, fica medicare taxes at the rate of 1.45%, $13,260 of federal income taxes, $1,450 of medical insurance deductions, and $860 of union dues. no employee earned more than $7,000 in this first pay period. required: 1.1 calculate below the amounts for each of these four taxes of regis company. regis’s merit rating reduces its state unemployment tax rate to 3% of the first $7,000 paid to each employee. the federal unemployment tax rate is 0.60