Puffy's Pastries Generates fiVe Cents of Net Income for Every

question 401

Multiple Choice

Puffy's Pastries generates five cents of net income for every $1 in sales. Thus, Puffy's has a _____ of 5 %.

• A) return on assets
• B) return on equity
• C) profit margin
• D) Du Pont measure
• E) total asset turnover

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Definitions:

Prereproductive Individuals

Members of a population who are at a life stage before they have reached sexual maturity and are capable of reproduction.

Fertility Rate

The average number of children born to a woman over her lifetime within a population.

Population

A group of individuals of the same species living in the same area and capable of interbreeding.

Survivorship

The probability that a given individual in a population or cohort will survive to a particular age; usually presented as a survivorship curve.