Suppose the equity market premium is 0.04 and a security with a beta of +1.5 has an equilibrium expected rate of return of 0.10. If the government wishes to issue risk-free zero-coupon bonds with a term to maturity of one period and a face value per bond of $1,000, how much can the government expect to receive per bond?

Pear co.’s income statement for the year ended december 31, as prepared by pear’s controller, reported income before taxes of $125,000. the auditor questioned the following amounts that had been included in income before taxes: equity in earnings of cinn co. $ 40,000 dividends received from cinn 8,000 adjustments to profits of prior years for arithmetical errors in depreciation (35,000) pear owns 40% of cinn’s common stock, and no acquisition differentials are relevant. pear’s december 31 income statement should report income before taxes of