Last Year Vaughn Corp

question 62

Multiple Choice

Last year Vaughn Corp.had sales of $315, 000 and a net income of $17, 832, and its year-end assets were $210, 000.The firm's total-debt-to-total-assets ratio was 42.5%.Based on the DuPont equation, what was Vaughn's ROE?

• A) 14.77%
• B) 15.51%
• C) 16.28%
• D) 17.10%
• E) 17.95%

Understand the concepts of shortage and surplus in the context of market equilibrium.

Identify and differentiate between price floors and price ceilings.

Calculate the magnitude of shortage or surplus in given market scenarios.

Interpret the impact of set prices above or below the equilibrium on market conditions.

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Definitions:

Nominal Variables

Categorical variables that have two or more categories without having a natural order or rank.

College Major

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A level of measurement that categorizes data but does not rank them.

Dummy Variables

Variables created to include categorical data in regression models by converting categories to a binary form (0 or 1), representing the presence or absence of some categorical effect.