You inherited an oil well that will pay you $25,000 per year for 25 years, with the first payment being made today. if you think a fair return on the well is 7.5%, how much should you ask for it if you decide to sell it? a. $284,595b. $299,574c. $314,553d. $330,281e. $346,795

Which of the following is intended to demonstrate to an employer the importance of cooperating with workers? a. a collective agreement. b. a stock offer. c. a boost in production. d. a work slowdown. 2b2t

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

What’s the present value of a perpetuity that pays $250 per year if the appropriate interest rate is 5%? $4,750 $5,000 $5,250 $5,513 $5,788what is the present value of the following cash flow stream at a rate of 8.0%, rounded to the nearest dollar? cash flows: today (t = 0) it is $750, after one year (t = 1) it is $2,450, at t = 2 it is $3,175, and at t=3 it is $4,400. draw a time line. $7,917 $8,333 $8,772 $9,233 $9,695