4. You own 100 shares in each of three companies. Each company pays a dividend. Gillette pays $1.15 per share in dividends. General Electric pays $.79 per share in dividends. Hershey Foods pays $ .84 per share in dividends. How much do you collect in dividends from all three companies? Explain how you got your answer.

Heer

At the beginning of last year, you purchased Delta Derivatives and Zeta Functions. The Delta Derivatives shares cost you $12 per share and paid 6% in dividends for the year, while Zeta Functions shares cost you $4 per share and paid 5% in dividends for the year. If you invested a total of $7,400 and earned $430 in dividends at the end of the year, how many shares of each company did you purchase?

3. Earnings and Profits. A distribution is made when D, Inc. has assets valued at $500,000 (basis of $300,000), E&P of $80,000, and 10,000 shares of stock out-standing. T receives assets valued at $100,000 (basis of $60,000) for all his D stock (2,000 shares with a basis of $25,000). Compute the corporation’s E&P balance after the exchange if it is treated as (a) a dividend, or as (b) a sale.