Summary: In the story "I Just Want to be Average" by Mike Rose‚ Rose‚ talks about his his past schooling experience and how his experience at Mercy nearly ruined him as a student. He narrates his story of his peers in the vocational learning classes and how his teachers responded or failed to respond to their needs as students. The various situations Mike experienced all centered around one main thing and that was a lack of effort‚ by the students and teachers both. Response: This story is a really
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This task involves trying to give an educated guess on a linear regression model for pricing real estate using a real facts date set using numbers and facts. Normally two approaches are used for valuing a real estate property: income and sales comparison. The sales assessment approach values a real estate property based on sale prices of similar properties. In this case the properties with familiar individuality are basically on the same price level‚ it would be typical to use a linear regression
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Assignments Data Files needed for the Review Assignments: Supplier.accdb (cont. from Tutorial 1) and Goods.xlsx In addition to tracking information about the suppliers Belmont Landscapes works with‚ Oren also wants to track information about their products. He asks you to create a new table in the Supplier database by completing the following steps: 1. Open the Supplier database‚ which you created and stored in the Access1\Review folder in Tutorial 1. 2. Open the Company table in Design view
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Butler Lumber Company 1. Why does Mr. Butler have to borrow so much money to support this profitable business? 2. Do you agree with his estimate of the company’s loan requirements? How much will he need to borrow to finance his expected expansion in sales (assume a 1991 sales volume of $3.6 million) 3. As Mr. Butler’s financial adviser‚ would you urge him to go ahead with‚ or to reconsider‚ his anticipated expansion and his plans for additional debt financing? As the banker‚ would you
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methodologies used in the analysis. The quality of the presentation will be considered in the grading. You have to hand in a handout of the presentation and an executive summary of no more than 2 pages. Guideline Questions for you Report 1. What is the value of the project assuming the firm was entirely equity financed? What are the annual projected free cash flows? What discount rate is appropriate? NPV = $1‚228‚485 Discount rate = cost of equity (from CAPM)
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1 The scale of the problem If it isn’t announced by a ring‚ beep‚ or flash‚ or your telephone it’s delivered to your front desk by a person in a uniform. If it isn’t spat out by a machine that looks like a printer‚ but takes phone calls; it’s transmitted to your PC‚ announced perhaps by a little toot of arrival. Welcome to the Age of Infoglut. Every day‚ managers are deluged by E-mails‚ faxes‚ post‚ voicemail. Just sorting everything out adds hours and extra stress to a working week. One British
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Not Your Average Joe of a Teacher The school year had just started; I was walking into the classroom of one of my most difficult classes that junior year. As I enter the room I see a man who looked like a basic high school male teacher. Although he looked like many male teachers I have seen before‚ I was a little intimidated by the presence he gave off. As I sit down‚ and class begins‚ I realize that this average looking teacher is not the intimidating man I thought he was. On this day‚ I met a
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moving average‚ weighted moving average and exponential smoothing. The moving average takes the total of actual demand for previous months then divides by the number of months added. The number of months that is used can be predefined such as using the previous three months. This is the simplest and easiest calculation but often is not accurate since it can have a lag in spotting trends (Murphy). The weighted moving average is similar to the moving average but it places weights on each period
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Date:_______________________________ Part A: Multiple Choice Choose the best response to each of the following questions: 1. Jean and her best friend‚ Verna‚ want to buy 3 DVDs that are regularly priced at $20.00 each. Today‚ three stores‚ A‚ B‚ and C‚ have the DVDs on sale. At which store will the friends spend the least amount of money if they buy 3 DVDs? DVD SALES | Store | Sale offer | A | Buy 1 and get 2 for half price! | B | All DVDs on sale at 35% off! | C | Buy two and get one
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National Cranberry Cooperative 2. The resource with least capacity determines the maximum long-term achievable throughput rate. Because wet and dry berries follow different routes at RP#1 there will be a maximum achievable throughput for each. The capacity of the dryers is the bottleneck for the wet berries. The maximum throughput for wet berries is 600 bbls/hr. For dry berries the separation process is the bottleneck. The maximum throughput for dry berries is 1200 bbls/hr. The percentage
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