Pharoah Company began the year 2022 with retained earnings of $659000. During the year, the company sold additional shares of stock for $1025000, recorded revenues of $605000, expenses of $377000, and paid dividends of $133000. Required:
What was Pharoah's retained earnings balance at the end of 2022?

Anew 2-lane road is needed in a part of town that is growing. at some point the road will need 4 lanes to handle the anticipated traffic. if the city's optimistic estimate of growth is used, the expansion will be needed in 4 years and has a probability of happening of 40%. for the most likely and pessimistic estimates, the expansion will be needed in 8 and 15 years respectively. the probability of the pessimistic estimate happening is 20%. the expansion will cost $ 4.2 million and the interest rate is 8%. what is the expected pw the expansion will cost?