Acompany employs 400 salespeople. of these, 83 received a bonus last year, 100 attended a special sales training program at the beginning of last year, and 42 both attended the special sales training program and received a bonus. (note: the bonus was based totally on sales performance.) a) what proportion of the 400 salespeople received a bonus last year? b) what proportion of the 400 salespeople attended the special sales training program at the beginning of last year? c) what proportion of the 400 salespeople both attended the special sales training program and received a bonus? d) what proportion of the salespeople who attended the special sales training program received a bonus? e) based on your answers to parts a and d, does the special sales training program seem to have been effective? explain your answer.

James jones is the owner of a small retail business operated as a sole proprietorship. during 2017, his business recorded the following items of income and expense: revenue from inventory sales $ 147,000 cost of goods sold 33,500 business license tax 2,400 rent on retail space 42,000 supplies 15,000 wages paid to employees 22,000 payroll taxes 1,700 utilities 3,600 compute taxable income attributable to the sole proprietorship by completing schedule c to be included in james’s 2017 form 1040. compute self-employment tax payable on the earnings of james’s sole proprietorship by completing a 2017 schedule se, form 1040. assume your answers to parts a and b are the same for 2018. further assume that james's business is not a service business, and that it has $155,000 unadjusted basis in tangible depreciable property. calculate james's 2018 section 199a deduction.