Gideon company uses the direct write-off method of accounting for uncollectible accounts. on may 3, the gideon company wrote off the $2,000 uncollectible account of its customer, a. hopkins. on july 10, gideon received a check for the full amount of $2,000 from hopkins. on july 10, the entry or entries gideon makes to record the recovery of the bad debt is:

The entry that should be made would be:
Bad Debts Expense                 $2,000
      Account Receivable- A. Hopkins; credit              $2,000
In direct write off, the company closed any residual data regarding the Bad receivables. Because of this, the direct-write off usually less actual in providing the bad-debts data compared to the alllowance method.

searching efficiency (a)

Explanation:

The other word for Lotka-Volterra is predator-prey in which they have a combination of the differential equation which consists of nonlinear and should be the first ordered sequence.

It is used to tell the biological system changes where the two species interacted with each other. The one is the predator and the other one is prey.

Now according to the question the rate at which the  predator-prey change is searching efficiency (a) as it shows the changes of predator species with the respect that how quick they determine, attack it and consumed it