Samantha Montgomery (age 42) is employed by Canon Company and is paid a salary of $62,430. She has just decided to join the company's Simple Retirement Account (IRA form) and has a few questions. Answer the following for Montgomery: a. What is the maximum that she can contribute into this retirement fund?
b. What would be the company's contribution?
c. What would be her weekly take-home pay with the retirement contribution deducted (married, 2 allowances, wage-bracket method, and a 2.3% state income tax on total wages)? Use the Wage- bracket tables in Publication 15.
d. What would be her weekly take-home pay without the retirement contribution deduction?

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From a business perspective, an information system provides a solution to a problem or challenge facing a firm and represents a combination of management, organization, and technology elements. the organization's hierarchy, functional specialties, business processes, culture, and political interest groups are components of which element of information systems?

Areal estate agent is considering changing her cell phone plan. there are three plans to choose from, all of which involve a monthly service charge of $20. plan a has a cost of $.42 a minute for daytime calls and $.17 a minute for evening calls. plan b has a charge of $.52 a minute for daytime calls and $.15 a minute for evening calls. plan c has a flat rate of $80 with 275 minutes of calls allowed per month and a charge of $.38 per minute beyond that, day or evening.a. determine the total charge under each plan for this case: 150 minutes of day calls and 70 minutes of evening calls in a month. (do not round intermediate calculations. round your answer to 2 decimal places. omit the "$" sign in your response.)c. if the agent will use the service for daytime calls, over what range of call minutes will each plan be optimal? (round each answer to the nearest whole number.include the indifference point itself in each answer.)d. suppose that the agent expects both daytime and evening calls. at what point (i.e., percentage of total call minutes used for daytime calls) would she be indifferent between plans a and b?