What Would Be the Times Interest Earned of a Company

question 23

Multiple Choice

What would be the times interest earned of a company if its total interest charges are $20,000, sales are $220,000, and its net profit margin is 6 percent? Assume a tax rate of 40 percent.

• A) 2.65
• B) 1.1
• C) 2.1
• D) 1.2

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Definitions:

SSR

Sum of Squares for Regression, a statistical measurement that represents the variation explained by the independent variables in a regression model.

SSE

Sum of Squared Errors, a measure used in statistics to quantify the discrepancy between the observed and model-predicted values.

Sum Of Squares

In statistics, the sum of squares is a measure used to quantify the variation or dispersion of a set of numbers.

Independent Variables

Variables in an experiment or model that are manipulated or classified by the researcher to observe their effect on the dependent variable.