Provincial inc. reported the following before-tax income statement items:

operating income $600,000
loss on discontinued operations 100,000

provincial has a 30% income tax rate.
provincial would report the following amount of income tax expense as a line item in the income statement:

$198,000.
$180,000.
$168,000.
$150,000.

If you were running a company, what are at least two things you could do to improve its productivity.

Anew 2-lane road is needed in a part of town that is growing. at some point the road will need 4 lanes to handle the anticipated traffic. if the city's optimistic estimate of growth is used, the expansion will be needed in 4 years and has a probability of happening of 40%. for the most likely and pessimistic estimates, the expansion will be needed in 8 and 15 years respectively. the probability of the pessimistic estimate happening is 20%. the expansion will cost $ 4.2 million and the interest rate is 8%. what is the expected pw the expansion will cost?

Lee earns $1,482 of interest in 270 days after making a deposit of $15,200. find the interest rate.