Dividends Per ShareEarnings per Share and Price$-$Earnings Ratio

A company reports the following:

a$.$ Determine the company's earnings per share on common stock. Round your answer to the nearest cent. Use the rounded answer

of requirement a for subsequent requirement, if required.

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b$.$ Determine the company's price$-$earnings ratio. Round to one decimal place.

Oceanic Company has $25,000$ shares of cumulative preferred $1\%$ stock, $$150$ par and $50,000$ shares of $$30$ par common stock. The

following amounts were distributed as dividends:

Determine the dividends per share for preferred and common stock for each year. Round all answers to two decimal places. If an

answer is zero, enter $\text{'}0\text{'}.$