Guac Co. paid $350,000 for a purchase that included land, a building, and equipment. An appraiser estimated the market value of the land to be $80,000, the building to be $300,000, and the equipment to be $20,000. Based on this information recording the basket purchase in the accounting records would cause .

Consider the local telephone company, a natural monopoly. the following graph shows the monthly demand curve for phone services and the company’s marginal revenue (mr), marginal cost (mc), and average total cost (atc) curves. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 price (dollars per subscription) quantity (thousands of subscriptions) d mr mc atc 8, 60 suppose that the government has decided not to regulate this industry, and the firm is free to maximize profits, without constraints. complete the first row of the following table. pricing mechanism short run long-run decision quantity price profit (subscriptions) (dollars per subscription) profit maximization marginal-cost pricing average-cost pricing suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to marginal cost. complete the second row of the previous table. suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to average total cost. complete the third row of the previous table. under average-cost pricing, the government will raise the price of output whenever a firm’s costs increase, and lower the price whenever a firm’s costs decrease. over time, under the average-cost pricing policy, what will the local telephone company most likely do

Nellie lumpkin, who suffered from dementia, was admitted to the picayune convalescent center, a nursing home. because of her mental condition, her daughter, beverly mcdaniel, signed the admissions agreement. it included a clause requiring the par- ties to submit any dispute to arbitration. after lumpkin left the center two years later, she filed a suit against picayune to recover damages for mistreatment and malpractice. [covenant health & rehabilitation of picayune, lp v. lumpkin, 23 so.2d 1092 (miss. app. 2009)] (see page 91.) 1. is it ethical for this dispute—involving negligent medical care, not a breach of a commercial contract—to be forced into arbitration? why or why not? discuss whether medical facilities should be able to impose arbitration when there is generally no bargaining over such terms.

1. what is the lowest balance during this period? 2. lily just received her bank statement below. a. what does the bank think her ending balance is? b. how much more does the bank think lily has? c. what transactions are missing? 3. what is the danger of not balancing your bank account? lily’s bank statement deposits: 2/25 $35 2/26 $20 3/1 $256.32 checks: 2/24 ck #301 $25 2/26 #302 $150 debit card: 2/24 american eagle $75.48 2/25 chick fa la $4.67 2/27 mcdonalds $3.56 2/28 chevron $34.76 withdrawal: 2/27 $40 beginning balance $423.34 deposits $311.32 total debits $333.47 ending balance $401.19