The following information is taken from reagan company's december 31 balance sheet: cash and cash equivalents $ 9,119 accounts receivable 73,922 merchandise inventories 63,862 prepaid expenses 4,800 accounts payable $ 15,650 notes payable 90,138 other current liabilities 10,200 if net sales for the current year were $608,000, the firm's days' sales uncollected for the year is: (use 365 days a year.)

40 days.

Explanation:

In the absence of the information about opening receivables, the closing figure is assumed to be the average accounts receivables,

Hence,

Debtors Turnover Ratio for Reagan:

= Sales ÷ Average Accounts Receivables

= $608,000 ÷ $73,922

= 8.22 times

Assuming that the number of days in a year as 365,

the firm's days sales uncollected for the year works out to:

= 365 days ÷ Debtors Turnover Ratio

= 365 ÷ 8.22

= 40.40 or 40 days.

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heterothermic organisms include those organisms that can switch between homeothermic (having body temperature higher than environment) and poikilothermic (having variation in internal body temperature) strategies.

some migratory birds show heterothermy as they decrease their metabolic rate during cold nights to keep their body temperature low. drop in metabolic rate allows increase in production efficiency of birds that reduces the internal body temperature to make it equal to external cold temperature during cold nights.

thus, the correct answer is 'birds allow their temperature drop in order to increase their production efficiency.'