With help from the marketing department, engineers at Easy Electronics have designed a new type of cable modem that is easier to install in computers and more reliable than any cable modems currently in use. The marketing managers want to find away to identify the new modem in the minds of consumers and differentiate it from less sophisticated products made by Easy's competitors. An important part of this effort is likely to be the selection of a for the new modem.

A. patent

B. brand name

C. copyright

D. prototype

Salaries are $4,500 per week for five working days and are paid weekly at the end of the day fridays. the end of the month falls on a thursday. the accountant for dayton company made the appropriate accrual adjustment and posted it to the ledger. the balance of salaries payable, as shown on the adjusted trial balance, will be a (assume that there was no beginning balance in the salaries payable account.)

Rate of return douglas keel, a financial analyst for orange industries, wishes to estimate the rate of return for two similar-risk investments, x and y. douglas's research indicates that the immediate past returns will serve as reasonable estimates of future returns. a year earlier, investment x had a market value of $27 comma 000; and investment y had a market value of $46 comma 000. during the year, investment x generated cash flow of $2 comma 025 and investment y generated cash flow of $ 6 comma 770. the current market values of investments x and y are $28 comma 582 and $46 comma 000, respectively. a. calculate the expected rate of return on investments x and y using the most recent year's data. b. assuming that the two investments are equally risky, which one should douglas recommend? why?

8. problems and applications q8there are four consumers willing to pay the following amounts for haircuts, and there are four haircutting businesses with the following costs: consumers' willingness to payyvette: $35cho: $15sean: $45bob: $25firms' costsfirm a: $40firm b: $20firm c: $10firm d: $30each firm has the capacity to produce only one haircut.for should be given.which businesses should cut hair? check all that apply.firm afirm bfirm cfirm dwhich consumers should have their hair cut? check all that apply.bobchoseanyvettethe maximum possible total surplus is