Piper owns a vacation cabin in the tennessee mountains. without consider-ing the cabin, she has gross income of $65,000. during the year, she rents the cabin for two weeks for $2,500 and uses it herself for four weeks. the total expenses for the year are $10,000 mortgage interest; $1,500 property tax; $2,000 utilities, insurance, and maintenance; and $3,200 depreciation. a. what effect does the rental of the vacation cabin have on piper’s agi? b. what expenses can piper deduct, and how are they classified (i. e., for or from agi)?

Solomon chemical company makes three products, b7, k6, and x9, which are joint products from the same materials. in a standard batch of 320,000 pounds of raw materials, the company generates 70,000 pounds of b7, 150,000 pounds of k6, and 100,000 pounds of x9. a standard batch costs $3,840,000 to produce. the sales prices per pound are $10, $14, and $20 for b7, k6, and x9, respectively. (a) allocate the joint product cost among the three final products using weight as the allocation base. (b) allocate the joint product cost among the three final products using market value as the allocation base. (c) allocate the joint product cost among the three final products using weight as the allocation base.