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A firm's year-end retained earnings balance are $670,000 and $560,000 for 2014 and 2015, respectively. The firm reported net profits after taxes of $100,000 in 2015. The firm paid dividends of ________ in 2015

A) $10,000 B) $100,000 C) $110,000 D) $210,000

Strong-form efficient markets theory proclaims that ________

A) one can chart historical stock prices to predict future stock prices such that you can identify mispriced stocks and routinely outperform the market B) one can exploit publicly available news or financial statement information to routinely outperform the market C) current prices reflect the price and volume history of the stock, all publicly available information, and all private information D) current prices reflect the price and volume history of the stock, all publicly available information, but no private information