Interest, inflation, and purchasing power suppose cho is an avid reader and buys only comic books. cho deposits $3,000 in a bank account that pays an annual nominal interest rate of 10%. assume this interest rate is fixed-that is, it won't change over time. at the time of her deposit, a comic book is priced at $15.00. initially, the purchasing power of cho's $3,000 deposit is comic books. for each of the annual inflation rates given in the following table, first determine the new price of a comic book, assuming it rises at the rate of inflation. then enter the corresponding purchasing power of cho's deposit after one year in the first row of the table for each inflation rate. finally, enter the value for the real interest rate at each of the given inflation rates. when the rate of inflation is greater than the interest rate on cho's deposit, the purchasing power of her deposit over the course of the year.

What is the communication process? why isnt it possible to communicate without using all the elements in the communication process?

Symantec corp., located in cupertino, california, is one of the world's largest producers of security and systems management software. the company's consolidated balance sheets for the 2009 and 2008 fiscal years included the following ($ in thousands): current assets: receivables, less allowances of $21,766 in 2009 and $24,089 in 2008 $ 838,010 $ 758,700 a disclosure note accompanying the financial statements reported the following ($ in thousands): year ended 2009 2008 (in thousands) trade accounts receivable, net: receivables $ 859,776 $ 782,789 less: allowance for doubtful accounts (8,938) (8,990) less: reserve for product returns (12,828) (15,099) trade accounts receivable, net: $ 838,010 $ 758,700 assume that the company reported bad debt expense in 2009 of $2,000 and had products returned for credit totaling $3,230 (sales price). net sales for 2009 were $6,174,800 (all numbers in thousands).required: what is the amount of accounts receivable due from customers at the end of 2009 and 2008? what amount of accounts receivable did symentec write off during 2009? what is the amount of symentec’s gross sales for the 2009 fiscal year? assuming that all sales are made on a credit basis, what is the amount of cash symentec collected from customers during the 2009 fiscal year?

Dr. dow jones wants to know whether a problem-based approach to teaching economics will result in higher academic performance than his traditional method. of the six sections of economics 101 at his university, dr. jones randomly assigns three sections to the traditional method and three sections to the problem-based method for unit 1 of the course. then all sections switch the instructional method for unit 2. he plans to compare the performance of the two groups of sections on their unit 1 and unit 2 exams. this study employs a design.