As part of the initial investment, Jackson contributes accounts receivable that had a balance of $25,974 in the accounts of a sole proprietorship. Of this amount, $1,213 is deemed completely worthless. For the remaining accounts, the partnership will establish a provision for possible future uncollectible accounts of $856. The amount debited to Accounts Receivable for the new partnership is a.$25,974 b.$24,761 c.$23,905 d.$25,118

True or false: a fitted model with more predictors will necessarily have a lower training set error than a model with fewer predictors.

The cook corporation has two divisions--east and west. the divisions have the following revenues and expenses: east west sales $ 603,000 $ 506,000 variable costs 231,000 300,000 traceable fixed costs 151,500 192,000 allocated common corporate costs 128,600 156,000 net operating income (loss) $ 91,900 $ (142,000 ) the management of cook is considering the elimination of the west division. if the west division were eliminated, its traceable fixed costs could be avoided. total common corporate costs would be unaffected by this decision. given these data, the elimination of the west division would result in an overall company net operating income (loss)

Qwest airlines has implemented a program to recycle all plastic drink cups used on their aircraft. their goal is to generate $7 million by the end of the recycle program's five-year life. each recycled cup can be sold for $0.005 (1/2 cent). a. how many cups must be recycled annually to meet this goal? assume uniform annual plastic cup usage and a 0% interest rate. b. repeat part (a) when the annual interest rate is 12%. c. why is the answer to part (b) less than the answer to part (a)?