Which ratio compares the earnings per share of a company to the market price for a share of the company's stock?

A. Price-earnings ratio
B. Dividend yield
C. Return on equity
D. Book value per share


Answer: A

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A) exactly 200 words. B) between 500 and 2,000 words. C) between 500 and 2,000 characters. D) at least 5,000 words. E) the maximum length of a tweet on Twitter: 140 characters.

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If an assembly line has a target takt time of 10 minutes per unit (due to capacity constraints), how many units per day can be produced? Assume that a production day is 480 minutes.

a. 10 units b. 48 units c. 400 units d. Cannot be determined from the information given

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XYZ manufactures four types of plywood panels. Each product must go through the following operations: patching, grading, gluing, and baking. The time requirements for each panel, the capacity available, the minimum production requirements, and the profit contributions per panel are tabled here. Which of the following represents the production constraint for the aircraft plywood panel? Let x1 = Number of soft panels to be made, x2 = Number of hardwood panels to be made, x3 = Number of tropical panel to be made, and x4 = Number of aircraft panels to be made.



A. X1 ? 100
B. 0.5X1 + 1X2 + 2.0X3 + 1.5X4 ? 2,000
C. X4 ? 300
D. X1 + 2X2 + 3X3 + 4X4 ? 4,000

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The unions' first breakthrough occurred in:

a. 1842. b. 1892. c. 1900. d. 1800.

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