Scenario 8.2 Consider a Publicly Held Firm (One Whose Stock Shares

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Multiple Choice

Scenario 8.2
Consider a publicly held firm (one whose stock shares are traded on the stock exchange) that earned revenue worth $350 million and incurred land,labor,and debt costs worth $320 million.The stockholders who have invested a total of $100 million in this firm could have earned 10 percent return on other comparable investments.
-According to the information in Scenario 8.2,how much economic profit did the firm make last year?

• A)$112 million
• B)$30 million
• C)$20 million
• D)-$20 million
• E)$2 million

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