Balance sheet and income statement data indicate the following: Company A
Company B
Bonds payable, 8%, 24-year bonds
Income before income tax for year
$1,200,000
$900,000
495,000
130,000
Income tax for year
75,000
12,000
Interest payable
50,000
Interest receivable
21,000
28,000
a. For each company, what is the times interest earned ratio? (Round to one decimal place.)
Company A
Company B
b. Which company gives potential creditors more protection?

When a company produces and sells x thousand units per week, its total weekly profit is p thousand dollars, where upper p equals startfraction 800 x over 100 plus x squared endfraction . the production level at t weeks from the present is x equals 4 plus 2 t. find the marginal profit, startfraction dp over dx endfraction and the time rate of change of profit, startfraction dp over dt endfraction . how fast (with respect of time) are profits changing when tequals8?