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Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section.
Terms
-Russia's great frontier region, a vast territory of what is now central and eastern Russia, most of it unsuitable for agriculture but rich in mineral resources and fur-bearing animals.

• A)Cortés
• B)Doña Marina
• C)the Great Dying
• D)Little Ice Age and General Crisis
• E)Columbian exchange
• F)peninsulares
• G)mestiz
• H)mulattoes
• I)plantation complex
• J)settler colonies
• K)Siberia
• L)yasak
• M)Qing dynasty empire
• N)Mughal Empire
• O)Akbar
• P)Aurangzeb
• Q)Ottoman Empire
• R)Constantinople
• S)the devshirme

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Definitions:

Optimal Capital Structure

The best mix of debt, equity, and other financings that maximizes a company's market value while minimizing its cost of capital.

Discount Rate

The rate of interest utilized to calculate the current value of future cash flows within discounted cash flow analysis.

Cost of Capital

A company's expense for acquiring funds and capital, calculated as a weighted average of debt and equity costs.

Debt-Equity Ratio

A measure of a company's financial leverage calculated by dividing its total liabilities by stockholders' equity; it indicates what proportion of equity and debt the company is using to finance its assets.