Chapter 9 Student: ___________________________________________________________________________ 1. A stronger Korean won‚ remembering that Kia cars sold in the United States are paid for in dollars‚ means what for Kia? A. a need to hedge Japanese yen B. a use for the Euro‚ a neutral currency C. less profit D. a use for gold to protect against currency fluctuations E. more profit 2. The _____________ is a market for converting the currency of one country into that of another. A. foreign exchange
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outcome are countable 8. The mean life of pair of shoes is 40 months with a standard deviation of 8 months. If the life of the shoes is normally distributed‚ how many pairs of shoes out of one million will need replacement before 36 months? 308‚500 9. If the sampled population has a mean of 48 and standard deviation 16‚ then the mean and the standard deviation for the sampling distribution x for n=16 48 and 4 10. The MPG (MILES PER GALLON) for a mid-size car is normally distributed with a mean of
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E-Commerce Essentials (Laudon/Traver) Chapter 9 Online Content and Media 1) The publishing and entertainment industries make up the largest share of the commercial content marketplace. Answer: TRUE Diff: Moderate AACSB: Application of knowledge 2) The average American still spends more time watching television than using the Internet. Answer: TRUE Diff: Moderate AACSB: Application of knowledge 3) The impact of the Internet on media appears to be decreasing the total demand for media.
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Chapter 6 Perfectly Competitive Markets 1. A firm sells a product in a perfectly competitive market‚ at a price of $50. The firm has a fixed cost of $30. Fill in the following table and indicate the level of output that maximizes profit. How would the profit-maximizing choice of output change if the fixed cost increased from $40 to $60? More generally‚ explain how the level of fixed cost affects the choice of output. The table is as follows: Output (Units) Total Revenue ($/unit) Total Cost ($/unit)
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Chapter 4 In Howard Zinn’s book‚ Passionate Declaration: Essays on War and Justice‚ I read chapter four titled “The Use and Abuse of History.” Zinn in this chapter discusses how history is used and abused. Many in society today only tell “impartial history‚” meaning we leave parts of history out to make a certain group or event stick out. History in the United States of America is swayed always to make us look like the good ones. We are a biased country and the government will do anything to censor
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Chemistry: A Molecular Approach (Tro) Chapter 9 Chemical Bonding I: Lewis Theory 1) Which of the following represent the Lewis structure for N? A) [pic] B) [pic] C) [pic] D) [pic] E) [pic] Answer: A 2) Which of the following represent the Lewis structure for Cl? A) [pic] B) [pic] C) [pic] D) [pic] E) [pic] Answer: B 3) Which of the following represent
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Chapter 10 the other civil war Chapter 10 describes a behind the scenes war between the people of the United states that is not often mentioned or spoken about. The problems the nation had besides the actual Civil War. The Anti Rent movement and Dorr’s Rebellion An incident sparked huge controversy in the Hudson River Valley ‚ near Albany New York. It was the Anti Rent movement where tenants in New York decided to revolt against their patroon leaders which were landlords performing feudalism
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The American playwright and social activist Howard Zinn once wrote‚ “Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.” Over the course of his life‚ Zinn authored many novels and attended numerous rallies in support of peaceful resistance‚ spreading the message of the freedoms that we as citizens of the United States of America hold – the rights to free speech‚ press‚ and religion‚ to name a few. It is his ideas regarding civil disobedience and his concept
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In the article of Columbus‚ the Indians and Human Progress‚ Zinn writes on how he believes society learns the history of Columbus and his discoveries. The writer suggests that even with the annihilation of human race‚ many see the success of progress and discovery. In the conclusion he also suggests that many people are telling the story of success and history through the leaders or conquerors eyes and not the minority. Zinn argues that today we read in history books what was discovered or
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Howard Zinn A Peoples History of the United States Chapter 1: Columbus‚ the Indians and Human Progress Can historians avoid emphasis on some facts and not others? Historians are selective‚ they simplify and they emphasize what they believe is important and gloss over other things they view as less important. “This distortion
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