Answer: 25
Explanation:
Given, A company experiences a stock split due to poor performance. Ariana's initial investment was a purchase of 50 stocks at $12.99 per share.
Value of her shares = 50 x $12.99
= $649.50
The reverse split is 1:2 means the number of shares split into half but the total value of her shares remains the same.
i.e. Ariana owns 50/2=25 stocks after the stock split.
Hence, Ariana owns 25 stocks after the stock split.
Answer:
Which of the following statements about brand names is true?
- 1. Brand names give the seller an incentive to provide consistently high-quality products and services in order to protect the reputation of the brand.
Options 2 and 3 are wrong:
2. Brand names are always economically wasteful since they dupe consumers into buying more expensive goods and services that are no different from generic versions.
⇒ FALSE, just because a product has a certain brand it doesn't make it better and therefore more expensive. There are brands that consumers associate with luxury and expensive products, while there are other brands that consumers recognize while not necessarily being more expensive than others, e.g Coke.
3. It is always rational to prefer brand names over generic substitutes.
⇒ FALSE, it depends on the type of product. Generic medicines as just as effective as banded medicines.
Read the following example and determine whether it illustrates a common critique or defense of advertising.
- This illustrates a common <u>CRITIQUE</u> of advertising. This ad targets young people that are susceptible to believing exaggerated or materialistic aspects of a product that cannot be proven correct or wrong.
Answer:
b,
Explanation:
treatment of hazardous waste is preferred to the other options, in a sense they all have side effect. But if waste are treated it reduces the rate of pollution.
