Hans grouper, president of grouper corp., believes that it is a good practice for a company to maintain a constant payout of dividends relative to its earnings. last year, net income was $560,000, and the corporation paid $100,800 in dividends. this year, due to some unusual circumstances, the corporation had income of $1,410,000. hans expects next year’s net income to be about $660,000.

a. what was grouper corporation's payout ratio last year?
b. if it is to maintain the same payout ratio, what amount of dividends would it pay this year?

Becky fenton has 40/80/40 automobile insurance coverage. if two other people are awarded $75,000 each for injuries in an auto accident in which becky was judged at fault, how much of this judgment would the insurance cover?

Assume that the following conditions exist: a. all banks are fully loaned up- there are no excess reserves, and desired excess reserves are always zero. b. the money multiplier is 5 .     c. the planned investment schedule is such that at a 4 percent rate of interest, investment =$1450 billion. at 5 percent, investment is $1420 billion. d. the investment multiplier is 3 . e.. the initial equilibrium level of real gdp is $12 trillion. f. the equilibrium rate of interest is 4 percent now the fed engages in contractionary monetary policy. it sells $1 billion worth of bonds, which reduces the money supply, which in turn raises the market rate of interest by 1 percentage point. calculate the decrease in money supply after fed's sale of bonds: $nothing billion.

You decided to charge $100 for your new computer game, but people are not buying it. what could you do to encourage people to buy your game?