Which of the following statements concerning common stock and the investment banking process is false? a. the preemptive right gives each existing common stockholder the right to purchase his or her proportionate share of a new stock issue. b. if a firm sells 1,000,000 new shares of class b stock, the transaction occurs in the primary market. c. listing a large firm's stock is often considered to be beneficial to stockholders because the increases in liquidity and status probably outweigh the additional costs to the firm. d. stockholders have the right to elect the firm's directors, who in turn select the officers who manage the business. if stockholders are dissatisfied with management's performance, an outside group may ask the stockholders to vote for it in an effort to take control of the business. this action is called a tender offer. e. a large issue of new stock could cause the stock price to fall. this loss is called "market pressure, " and it is treated as a flotation cost because it is a cost associated with the new issue.

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

enrique borrowed $3600 to put a down payment on a motorcycle. the loan had a simple interest rate of 8% for 2 years. use the formula i = prt to find the amount of interest he will pay on the loan. i = interest; p = principal; r = rate (expressed as a decimal 0.08); t = time in years.

The triple jump is a track and field event that requires a performer to run down a runway and then to perform a hop, skip, and jump sequence. the hop, skip, and jump portion sequence of the event is an example of a(n):