To buy a house, an investor secured a $10,000 mortgage from a bank. the bank promptly and properly recorded its mortgage. subsequently, the investor financed certain improvements to the house with a $2,000 mortgage on the land from a finance company. the finance company promptly and properly recorded its mortgage. before the investor made a payment on either mortgage, the federal government announced that it would begin storing nuclear waste products in the area. the value of property, including the investor's house, plummeted. the investor did not pay either the bank or the finance company, and the bank brought a proper action to foreclose, notifying both the investor and the finance company. a buyer bought the house at the foreclosure sale for $6,000, which was its fair market value. there are no special statutes in the jurisdiction regarding deficiency judgments. what does the investor owe? response - correcta $5,000 to the bank and $1,000 to the finance company. b $4,000 to the bank and $2,000 to the finance company. c nothing to the bank and $2,000 to the finance company. d $4,000 to the bank and nothing to the finance company

The hawthorne works was a large western electric factory with 45,000 employees. during the 1920s and 1930s, hawthorne works was the site of some well-known industrial studies. in one of the studies, researchers investigated the impact of different working conditions on worker productivity. prior to the start of the study, researchers secretly measured workers' productivity for several weeks. then researchers chose two workers, who then chose their own teams. the teams were separated from the general workforce and completed their work in different experiment rooms where the researchers could observe them more easily. over a 5-year period researchers manipulated the structure of the workday for each team (number and duration of breaks and number of hours per shift). for each of these changes in working conditions, the researchers measured the effect on productivity. for some conditions, such as frequent short breaks, workers rebelled by intentionally decreasing productivity.why did the researchers secretly measure the workers' productivity before creating the two treatment groups? a, to create similar treatment groups so that a cause-and-effect relationship could be establishedb, to draw conclusions about the productivity of all workers in the plant based on the test groupsc, to directly control for confounding variablesd, to provide a baseline for measuring worker productivity

For a firm that uses the weighted average method of process costing, which of the following must be true? (a) physical units can be greater than or less than equivalent units. (b) physical units must be equal to equivalent units. (c) equivalent units must be greater than or equal to physical units. (d) physical units must be greater than or equal to equivalent units.

1. regarding general guidelines for the preparation of successful soups, which of the following statements is true? a. thick soups made with starchy vegetables may thin during storage. b. soups should be seasoned throughout the cooking process. c. finish a cream soup well before serving it to moderate the flavor. d. consommés take quite a long time to cool.