Four years ago, the cable television company in your area increased its price by 16 percent. As a result, its total revenue increased. Last year, a new company started providing television service using satellite dishes. This year the cable company increased its price by 16 percent, but total revenue fell. This is likely the result of which of the following? A. Demand facing an individual store is generally more elastic than demand facing the entire industry.
B. Four years ago, demand for television service was inelastic due to a lack of available substitutes.
C. This year, demand for television service is elastic due to the presence of an available substitute.
D. All of the above are correct.

Alamar petroleum company offers its employees the option of contributing retirement funds up to 5% of their wages or salaries, with the contribution being matched by alamar. the company also pays 80% of medical and life insurance premiums. deductions relating to these plans and other payroll information for the first biweekly payroll period of february are listed as follows: wages and salaries $ 2,800,000 employee contribution to voluntary retirement plan 92,000 medical insurance premiums 50,000 life insurance premiums 9,800 federal income taxes to be withheld 480,000 local income taxes to be withheld 61,000 payroll taxes: federal unemployment tax rate 0.60 % state unemployment tax rate (after futa deduction) 5.40 % social security tax rate 6.20 % medicare tax rate 1.45 % required: prepare the appropriate journal entries to record salaries and wages expense and payroll tax expense for the biweekly pay period. assume that no employee's cumulative wages exceed the relevant wage bases for social security, and that all employees' cumulative wages do exceed the relevant unemployment wage bases.