At the beginning of 2019, ms. p purchased a 20 percent interest in ppy partnership for $20,000. ms. p’s schedule k-1 reported that her share of ppy’s debt at year-end was $12,000, and her share of ordinary loss was $28,000. on january 1, 2020, ms. p sold her interest to another partner for $2,000 cash. how much of her share of ppy’s loss can ms. p deduct on her 2019 return? compute ms. p’s recognized gain on sale of her ppy interest. how would your answers to parts a and b change if ppy were an s corporation instead of a partnership?

At a student café, there are equal numbers of two types of customers with the following values. the café owner cannot distinguish between the two types of students because many students without early classes arrive early anyway (i. e., she cannot price-discriminate). students with early classes students without early classes coffee 70 60 banana 51 101 the marginal cost of coffee is 10 and the marginal cost of a banana is 40. the café owner is considering three pricing strategies: 1. mixed bundling: price bundle of coffee and a banana for 161, or just a coffee for 70. 2. price separately: offer coffee at 60, price a banana at 101. 3. bundle only: coffee and a banana for 121. do not offer goods separately. assume that if the price of an item or bundle is no more than exactly equal to a student's willingness to pay, then the student will purchase the item or bundle. for simplicity, assume there is just one student with an early class, and one student without an early class. price strategy revenue from pricing strategy cost from pricing strategy profit from pricing strategy 1. mixed bundling $ $ $ 2. price separately $ $ $ 3. bundle only $ $ $ pricing strategy yields the highest profit for the café owner.