Chapter 10 Social Significance of Race and Ethnicity - Race: people who share physical characteristics‚ such as skin color and facial features that are passed on through reproduction - social construction: a societal invention that labels people based on physical appearance. - Skin color‚ hair texture‚ and eye shape are examples of unequal treatment - Ethnic Group: a group of people who identify with a common national origin or cultural heritage that includes language‚ geographic roots‚ food
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Chapter 6: a) Exploratory studies: Exploratory have loose structures with the objective of discovering future research tasks. The immediate purpose of exploration is usually to develop hypotheses or questions for further research. Formal studies: The formal study continues the exploratory study. It begins with a hypothesis or research question and involves precise procedures and data source specifications. The goal of a formal research design is to test the hypotheses or answer the research
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supervisor of her firm’s research department. Her firm has been seeking the mandate to underwrite Wings Industries’ proposed secondary stock offering. Without mentioning that the firm is seeking the mandate‚ she asks Jack Dawson to analyze Wings common stock and prepare a research report. After reasonable effort‚ Dawson produces a favorable report on Wings stock. Plumb then adds a footnote describing the underwriting relationship with Wings and disseminates the report to the firm’s clients. According
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Homework should be reduced Homework are like pills you need it‚ but it ’s are not necessary. Even though homework could give you valuable information it should be reduced because it is not necessary sometimes. In my argument I believe homework should be reduced because it takes much time‚ cause stress‚ and reduce our time of sleep. The purpose of this paper is to show readers what less homework causes and how it could be modified. Homework is like a resource you need‚ it ’s necessary‚ but should
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CHAPTER 10 QUIZ 1. A mixed cost function has a constant component of $20‚000. If the total cost is $60‚000 and the independent variable has the value 200‚ what is the value of the slope coefficient? a. $200 b. $400 c. $600 d. $40‚000 2. [CMA Adapted] Of the following methods‚ the one that would not be appropriate for analyzing how a specific cost behaves is a. the scattergraph method. b. the industrial engineering approach. c. linear programming. d. statistical regression analysis.
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Tax at 28% on interest = $947‚ After-tax proceeds = $12‚435 $10‚000 @ 5.5% x 5 years = $13‚070. Therefore this bond is a better deal. The land needs to earn at least $3070 after tax to beat the tax-free bond. But tax at 15% will be levied on the gain. The before tax gain is 3070 / (1 - .15) = 3611. Therefore the land must increase at least $3611 in value in order to beat the best bond. Ed’s and his widow’s gross income is $22000 plus the salary of Ed or his wife prior to his death 42. Faye’s
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180‚000 Fixed S & admin. 160‚000 Net income 470‚000 EX5-18 3.6 * 5000 = 18‚000 And 488‚000 – 470‚000 = 18‚000 Problem 5-2 VC per unit = 75 2013 2014 2015 Full cost per unit = 50‚000/5000 50‚000/6‚000 50‚000/4000 10 8.33 12.50 Add 75 75 75 = 85 83.33 87.50 Sales= 225*5000 1‚125‚000 1‚125‚000 1‚125‚000 Less CGS 85*5‚000 83.33*5000 87.5 *4000 +83.33*1000 = 425‚000 416‚000 433‚333 CM = 700‚000 708‚350 691‚667
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YPF owns substantial reserves because its activities are dominated by exploration and production of oil. As a united company‚ Repsol will have a much better balance of business‚ quadrupling its reserves‚ and vaulting into the big leagues of the top 10 international players. But with the reserves of YPF‚ it will instead benefit from rising prices‚ and expand its activities to other countries in Latin America. Repsol-YPF seeks to achieve a balance between upstream and downstream operations‚ position
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A chemical bond is an attraction between atoms that allows the formation of chemical substances that contain two or more atoms. The bond is caused by the electromagnetic force attraction between opposite charges‚ either between electrons and nuclei‚ or as the result of a dipole attraction. The strength of chemical bonds varies considerably; there are "strong bonds" such as covalent or ionic bonds and "weak bonds" such as dipole-dipole interactions‚ the London dispersion force and hydrogen bonding
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Mid Term – October 2014 Bond Pricing Qu 1: Time to Maturity Zero Coupon Rate Discount Factor 1 5% 2 6% 3 7% 4 8% 5 9% Give the formula for the discount factor in terms of the zero coupon rate. Use the formula to fill in the discount factors in the table above (you can write the formula or using excel calculate the numerical value). Assume that the government wishes to issue a new 5 year bond priced at 100 (called a par coupon bond as it is priced at par i.e. the price is the same as the face
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