Uptown Markets is financed with 45 percent debt and 55 percent equity. This mixture of debt and equity is referred to as the firm's:

The mixture of debt and equity is referred to as the firm's capital structure.

Explanation:

The capital structure of a firm is the combination of debt and equity that a firm uses to finance its operations. It is called capital structure because all the capital of a firm comes either from equity (capital that is held by the owners), or from debt (capital that the owners hold temporarily because they owe it to other parties).

Capital structure is a very important indicator when analyzing the financial situation of a firm. Most economists and financial experts agree that a capital structure in which the firm uses more equity than debt is preferrable, although there are many other factors to take into account when making this assessment.

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