You are thinking about investing $ 4 comma 897 in your friend's landscaping business. Even though you know the investment is risky and you can't be sure, you expect your investment to be worth $ 5 comma 780 next year. You notice that the rate for one-year Treasury bills is 1 %. However, you feel that other investments of equal risk to your friend's landscape business offer an expected return of 10 % for the year. What should you do?

Banana computers has decided to procure processing chips required for its laptops from external suppliers instead of manufacturing them in their own facilities. how will this decision affect the firm? a. the firm will be protected against the principal-agent problem. b. the firm's administrative costs will be low because of necessary bureaucracy. c. the firm will have more flexibility in purchasing and comparing prices of goods and services. d. the firm will have high-powered incentives, such as hourly wages and salaries.