Otto and Monica are married taxpayers who file a joint tax return. For the current tax year, they have AGI of $99,600. They have excess depreciation on real estate of $59,760, which must be added back to AGI to arrive at AMTI. The amount of their mortgage interest expense for the year was $19,920, and they made charitable contributions of $9,960. They have no other itemized deductions. If Otto and Monica's taxable income for the current year is $69,720, determine the amount of their AMTI.

8. agreement and disagreement among economists suppose that bob, an economist from a university in arizona, and cho, an economist from a public television program, are arguing over saving incentives. the following dialogue shows an excerpt from their debate: cho: i think it's safe to say that, in general, the savings rate of households in today's economy is much lower than it really needs to be to sustain an improvement in living standards. bob: i think a switch from the income tax to a consumption tax would bring growth in living standards. cho: you really think households would change their saving behavior enough in response to this to make a difference? because i don't. the disagreement between these economists is most likely due to . despite their differences, with which proposition are two economists chosen at random most likely to agree? rent ceilings reduce the quantity and quality of available housing. immigrants receive more in government benefits than they contribute in taxes. having a single income tax rate would improve economic performance.

Who is better at multi-tasking? in business, employees are often asked to perform a complex task when their atten-tion is divided (i.e., multi-tasking). human factors (may 2014) published a study designed to determine whether video game players are better than non–video game play-ers at multi-tasking. each in a sample of 60 college stu-dents was classified as a video game player or a non-player. participants entered a street crossing simulator and were asked to cross a busy street at an unsigned intersec-tion. the simulator was designed to have cars traveling at various high rates of speed in both directions. during the crossing, the students also performed a memory task as a distraction. two variables were measured for each student: (1) a street crossing performance score (measured out of 100 points) and (2) a memory task score (measured out of 20 points). the researchers found no differences in either the street crossing performance or memory task score of video game players and non-gamers. “these results,” say the researchers, “suggest that action video game players [and non-gamers] are equally susceptible to the costs of dividing attention in a complex task”

< back to assignment attempts: 1 1 keep the highest: 1 / 2 2. determining opportunity cost juanita is deciding whether to buy a suit that she wants, as well as where to buy it. three stores carry the same suit, but it is more convenient for juanita to get to some stores than others. for example, she can go to her local store, located 15 minutes away from where she works, and pay a marked-up price of $102 for the suit: store travel time each way price of a suit (minutes) (dollars per suit) local department store 15 102 across town 30 88 neighboring city 60 65 juanita makes $42 an hour at work. she has to take time off work to purchase her suit, so each hour away from work costs her $42 in lost income. assume that returning to work takes juanita the same amount of time as getting to a store and that it takes her 30 minutes to shop. as you answer the following questions, ignore the cost of gasoline and depreciation of her car when traveling. complete the following table by computing the opportunity cost of juanita's time and the total cost of shopping at each location. store opportunity cost of time price of a suit total cost (dollars) (dollars per suit) (dollars) local department store 102 across town 88 neighboring city 65 assume that juanita takes opportunity costs and the price of the suit into consideration when she shops. juanita will minimize the cost of the suit if she buys it from the . grade it now save & continue continue without saving