Your car gets 22 miles per gallon (mpg) at 55 miles per hour (mph) and 18 mpg at 65 mph. at what speed should you make a 450-mile trip 1. if gas costs $2.95 per gallon and your time is worth $17/hour? 2. if gas costs $3.80 per gallon and your time is worth $11.5/hour? 3. if gas costs $4.75 per gallon and your time is worth $8.9/hour? 4. building an excel spreadsheet to calculate the total trip cost for gas costs of $2.5, $3.5, $4.5, and $5.5 and values of time of $6.5, $9.5, $12.5, $15.5, and $18.5 per hour. do two tables: one at 55 mph and one at 65 mph.

Information on gerken power co., is shown below. assume the company’s tax rate is 40 percent. debt: 9,400 8.4 percent coupon bonds outstanding, $1,000 par value, 21 years to maturity, selling for 100.5 percent of par; the bonds make semiannual payments. common stock: 219,000 shares outstanding, selling for $83.90 per share; beta is 1.24. preferred stock: 12,900 shares of 5.95 percent preferred stock outstanding, currently selling for $97.10 per share. market: 7.2 percent market risk premium and 5 percent risk-free rate. required: calculate the company's wacc. (do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) wacc %

An investment offers a total return of 18 percent over the coming year. janice yellen thinks the total real return on this investment will be only 14 percent. what does janice believe the inflation rate will be over the next year?

Lusk corporation produces and sells 14,300 units of product x each month. the selling price of product x is $25 per unit, and variable expenses are $19 per unit. a study has been made concerning whether product x should be discontinued. the study shows that $72,000 of the $102,000 in monthly fixed expenses charged to product x would not be avoidable even if the product was discontinued. if product x is discontinued, the annual financial advantage (disadvantage) for the company of eliminating this product should be: