What is the meaning of a slack or surplus variable?

What will be an ideal response?

The amount by which the left-hand side falls short of the right-hand side is the slack variable. The amount by which the left-hand side exceeds the right-hand side is the surplus variable.

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Cabot Corp's present EBIT is $4.5 million, and profits available to common shareholders are $2,791,800, with 384,000 shares of common stock outstanding. If the firm were to instead have a debt ratio of 80%, additional interest expense would cause profits available to stockholders to decline to $2,732,400, but only 307,200 common shares would be outstanding. What is the difference in EPS at a debt ratio of 80% versus 60%? A) $$1.62 B) $1.33 C) $7.27 D) $-0.15

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