As the price of samosas (a kind of food in india) was raised from 2 to 3 rupees (indian currency), their quantity demanded fell from 15,000 to 12,000. rounding to the nearest tenth, the elasticity of demand of samosas is:

Pear co.’s income statement for the year ended december 31, as prepared by pear’s controller, reported income before taxes of $125,000. the auditor questioned the following amounts that had been included in income before taxes: equity in earnings of cinn co. $ 40,000 dividends received from cinn 8,000 adjustments to profits of prior years for arithmetical errors in depreciation (35,000) pear owns 40% of cinn’s common stock, and no acquisition differentials are relevant. pear’s december 31 income statement should report income before taxes of