A small startup company has just received a round of funding in order to provide the capacity that is required to deliver their smartphone app to a larger number of devices. They have decided to use a public cloud rather than build their own data center, but want to manage as much of the infrastructure as possible while realizing the savings on capital expenditures from the purchase of hardware. Which of the following service models will give them the most control over the security of the platform they want to develop? A. SaaS.
B. PaaS.
C. IaaS.
D. DBaaS.

Consider the following ethical argument. which of the three statements represents the moral statement about a moral principle? statement 1: a dealership advertised a car at a very low price, but only had a similar higher priced model in stock. statement 2: it is wrong to perform a bait and switch. statement 3: the dealership was wrong to advertise the car on special sale when in actually it was not available.

Benton company (bc), a calendar year entity, has one owner, who is in the 37% federal income tax bracket (any net capital gains or dividends would be taxed at a 20% rate). bc's gross income is $395,000, and its ordinary trade or business deductions are $245,000. ignore the standard deduction (or itemized deductions) and the deduction for qualified business income. if required, round computations to the nearest dollar. a. bc is operated as a proprietorship, and the owner withdraws $100,000 for personal use. bc's taxable income for the current year is $ , and the tax liability associated with the income from the sole proprietorship is $ . b. bc is operated as a c corporation, pays out $100,000 as salary, and pays no dividends to its shareholder. bc's taxable income for the current year is $ , and bc's tax liability is $ . the shareholder's tax liability is $ . c. bc is operated as a c corporation and pays out no salary or dividends to its shareholder. bc's taxable income for the current year is $ , and bc's tax liability is $ . d. bc is operated as a c corporation, pays out $100,000 as salary, and pays out the remainder of its earnings as dividends. bc's taxable income for the current year is $ , and bc's tax liability is $ .

Bill dukes has $100,000 invested in a 2-stock portfolio. $62,500 is invested in stock x and the remainder is invested in stock y. x's beta is 1.50 and y's beta is 0.70. what is the portfolio's beta? do not round your intermediate calculations. round the final answer to 2 decimal places.