Phillip purchased a machine for his business last year. it cost $50,000. the machine required a skilled operator, who was a worker earning $2,000 per month. how will phillip treat the cost of the machine and the wages of the skilled operator in his books of accounts? in his books of accounts, phillip will record the machine as a(n) and the wages paid to the skilled operator as a(n) .

Stock a has a beta of 1.2 and a standard deviation of 20%. stock b has a beta of 0.8 and a standard deviation of 25%. portfolio p has $200,000 consisting of $100,000 invested in stock a and $100,000 in stock b. which of the following statements is correct? (assume that the stocks are in equilibrium.) (a) stock b has a higher required rate of return than stock a. (b) portfolio p has a standard deviation of 22.5%. (c) portfolio p has a beta equal to 1.0. (d) more information is needed to determine the portfolio's beta. (e) stock a's returns are less highly correlated with the returns on most other stocks than are b's returns.