Question: 1. American Transit Company has 100,000 shares of common stock held by stockholders and paid $0.32 per share in dividends. How much was paid out in dividends?
2. A publicly traded corporation has issued 10,000 shares of cumulative preferred stock that will earn $0.73 per share and 1,000,000 shares of common stock. No dividends were paid last year. This year the corporation's board of directors has voted to pay out $2,800,000 in dividends. How are the dividends distributed?