Ionizing radiation is sometimes used to preserve agricultural products. a journal article concerning the effect of gamma irradiation on the storage life of garlic reported the following: 180 garlic bulbs were treated with radiation immediately after harvest. 153 of those bulbs were worthy of sale in the market 120 days after harvest. do these data suggest that irradiation is beneficial in keeping garlic bulbs worthy of sale in the market? answer this question by conducting the appropriate hypothesis test and calculating the p-value. is beneficial at a significance level of.01, of the 180

On january 1, 2018, wetick optometrists leased diagnostic equipment from southern corp. which had purchased the equipment at a cost of $2,256,342. the lease agreement specifies six annual payments of $490,000 beginning january 1, 2018, the beginning of the lease, and at each december 31 thereafter through 2022. the six-year lease term ending december 31, 2023 (a year after the final payment), is equal to the estimated useful life of the equipment. the contract specifies that lease payments for each year will increase on the basis of the increase in the consumer price index for the year just ended. thus, the first payment will be $490,000, and the second and subsequent payments might be different. the cpi at the beginning of the lease is 120. southern routinely acquires diagnostic equipment for lease to other firms. the interest rate in these financing arrangements is 12%. (fv of $1, pv of $1, fva of $1, pva of $1, fvad of $1 and pvad of $1) prepare the appropriate journal entries for wetick and southern to record the lease at its beginning.