Amicroeconomist wants to determine how corporate sales are influenced by capital and wage spending by companies. she proceeds to randomly select 26 large corporations and record information in millions of dollars. a statistical analyst discovers that capital spending by corporations has a significant inverse relationship with wage spending. what should the microeconomist who developed this multiple regression model be particularly concerned with? a. missing observations b. collinearity c. normality of residuals d. randomness of error term

Lambert manufacturing has $100,000 to invest in either project a or project b. the following data are available on these projects (ignore income taxes.): project a project b cost of equipment needed now $100,000 $60,000 working capital investment needed now - $40,000 annual cash operating inflows $40,000 $35,000 salvage value of equipment in 6 years $10,000 - both projects will have a useful life of 6 years and the total cost approach to net present value analysis. at the end of 6 years, the working capital investment will be released for use elsewhere. lambert's required rate of return is 14%. the net present value of project b is:

Bernard made a gift of $500,000 to his brother in 2014. due to bernard’s prior taxable gifts he paid $200,000 of gift tax. when bernard died in 2019, the applicable gift tax credit had increased. at bernard’s death, what amount related to the $500,000 gift to his brother is included in his gross estate?

Experts are particularly concerned about four strategic metal resources that are important for the u. s. economy and military strength, and that must be imported. what percentage does the u. s. import? *