Below are approximate amounts related to retained earnings reported by five companies in previous years. 1. Coca-Cola reports an increase in retained earnings of $3.2 billion and net income of $6.9 billion. What is the amount of dividends? 2. PepsiCo reports an increase in retained earnings of $3.4 billion and dividends of $2.6 billion. What is the amount of net income? 3. Google reports an increase in retained earnings of $1.6 billion and net income of $1.6 billion. What is the amount of dividends? 4. Sirius Satellite Radio reports beginning retained earnings of -$1.6 billion, net loss of $1.0 billion, and $0 dividends. What is the amount of ending retained earnings? 5. Abercrombie & Fitch reports ending retained earnings of $1.56 billion, net income of $0.43 billion, and dividends of $0.06 billion. What is the amount of beginning retained earnings? Required: Calculate the answer to each.

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Suppose a firm faces a fixed price of output, 푝푝= 1200. the firm hires workers from a union at a daily wage, 푤푤, to produce output according to the production function 푞푞= 2퐸퐸12. there are 225 workers in the union. any union worker who does not work for this firm is guaranteed to find nonunion employment at a wage of $96 per day. a. what is the firm’s labor demand function? b. if the firm is allowed to choose 푤푤, but then the union decides how many workers to provide (up to 225) at that wage, what wage will the firm set? how many workers will the union provide? what is the firm’s output and profit? what is the total income of the 225 union workers? c. now suppose that the union sets the wage, but the firm decides how many workers to hire at that wage (up to 225). what wage will the union set to maximize the total income of all 225 workers? how many workers will the firm hire? what is the firm’s output and profit? what is the total income of the 225 union workers? [hint: to maximize total income of union, take the first order condition with respect to w and set equal to 0.]