On january 1, 2017, leo paid $15,000 for 5 percent of the stock in bls, an s corporation. in november, he loaned $8,000 to bls in return for a promissory note. bls generated a $600,000 operating loss in 2017. bls generated $408,000 ordinary business income in 2018.a. how much of leo’s share of this income is included in his 2018 taxable income? b. compute leo’s basis in his bls stock and his bls note at the end of 2018.c. how would your answers to parts a and b change if bls’s ordinary business income was only $220,000?

Total marketing effort is a term used to describe the critical decision factors that affect demand: price, advertising, distribution, and product quality. define the variable x to represent total marketing effort. a typical model that is used to predict demand as a function of total marketing effort is based on the power function: d = axb suppose that a is a positive number. different model forms result from varying the constant b. sketch the graphs of this model for b = 0, b = 1, 0< b< 1, b< 0, and b> 1. (we encourage you to use excel to do this.) what does each model tell you about the relationship between demand and marketing effort? what assumptions are implied? are they reasonable? how would you go about selecting the appropriate model?