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A local university, connected to Internet2, employs several professors in its school of engineering that are part of a research project that makes extremely heavy use of the bandwidth this connection provides. In fact, the engineering professors would like to get even more bandwidth. Given the way its designers set up Internet2, the researchers at the university

A. must petition the Internet2 Usage Committee and obtain approval.
B. may be able to obtain more bandwidth, but only if the university is willing to pay for it.
C. are out of luck. One drawback of Internet2 is that, unlike the regular Internet, the technology of Internet2 can allocate only a fixed amount of bandwidth to each user.
D. can install a simple bandwidth amplification card in each computer that compresses data, thus allowing it to flow more rapidly.

Ed and Ann Ross were divorced in January 2016. In accordance with the divorce decree, Ed transferred the title in their home to Ann in 2016. The home, which had a fair market value of $150,000, was subject to a $50,000 mortgage that had 20 more years to run. Monthly mortgage payments amount to $1,000. Under the terms of settlement, Ed is obligated to make the mortgage payments on the home for the full remaining 20-year term of the indebtedness, regardless of how long Ann lives. Ed made 12 mortgage payments in 2016. What amount is taxable as alimony in Ann's 2016 return?

a. $0 b. $100,000 c. $112,000 d. $12,000