Last year, you purchased a stock at a price of $53 a share. Over the course of the year, you received $1.4 in dividends and inflation averaged 2.8 percent. Today, you sold your shares for $53.6 a share. What is your approximate real rate of return on this investment?

Your mother's well-diversified portfolio has an expected return of 12.0% and a beta of 1.20. she is in the process of buying 100 shares of safety corp. at $10 a share and adding it to her portfolio. safety has an expected return of 15.0% and a beta of 2.00. the total value of your current portfolio is $9,000. what will the expected return and beta on the portfolio be after the purchase of the safety stock?

Jackson is preparing for his hearing before the federal communications commission (fcc) involving a complaint that was filed against him by the fcc regarding the interruption of radio frequency. the order to "cease and desist" using the radio frequency has had a detrimental impact on his business. once the administrative law judge prepares his or her initial order, jackson has no further options. no, jackson can request that the matter be reviewed by an agency board or commission. yes, once the initial order is presented, it's only a matter of time before the order becomes final.

If a team of three workers, each making the u.s. federal minimum wage, produced these 12 rugs, what would the total labor cost be? don't forget that these workers would be working overtime.