Which best explains how free choice is protected in a free-market system?
a. consumers and producers protect their own freedom by making economic choices.
b. the government makes and enforces whatever laws are needed to guarantee free choice.
c. workers pressure producers to provide them with high enough wages to make free choices.
d. conflict and competition among producers automatically lead to free choice for consumers.

The relationship requirement for qualifying relative requires the potential qualifying relative to have a family relationship with the taxpayer. t or fwhich of the following is not a from agi deduction? a. standard deductionb. itemized deductionc. personal exemptiond. none of these. all of these are from agi deductions

David paid $975,000 for two beachfront lots in coastal south carolina, with the intention of building residential homes on each. two years later, the south carolina legislature passed the beachfront management act, barring any further development of the coast, including david's lots. when david files a complaint to seek compensation for his property, south carolina refuses, pointing to a passage in david's own complaint that states "the beachfront management act [was] properly and validly designed to south carolina's " is south carolina required to compensate david under the takings clause?

Consider the following information on stocks a, b, c and their returns (in decimals) in each state: state prob. of state a b c boom 20% 0.27 0.22 0.16 good 45% 0.16 0.09 0.07 poor 25% 0.03 0 0.03 bust 10% -0.08 -0.04 -0.02 if your portfolio is invested 25% in a, 40% in b, and 35% in c, what is the standard deviation of the portfolio in percent? answer to two decimals, carry intermediate calcs. to at least four decimals.