Name: Pratik Patel R.A. 3: The Electoral College 1. What is the minimum number of states that a candidate needs to win in order to win the election? What are those states? 11 states are sufficient to win the Electoral College which requires a simple majority of 270 votes. The states you need are: States # Electoral College California 55 Texas 38 New York 29 Florida 29 Illinois 20 Pennsylvania 20 Ohio 18 Michigan 16 Georgia 16 New Jersey
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1. What is external validity? a. External validity is the extent to which findings may be generalized. (Page 292) 2. Why should a researcher be concerned about generalizing to other populations? a. Researchers should be concerned about generalizing to other populations‚ because if their research is not generalizable then their findings will be limited to only one population and will not have a far-reaching effect. (Page 292) 3. How can the fact that most studies are conducted with college students
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1. What is Bank? Institution which accept deposit for lending Banks are the financial institutions that mobilise the savings of the community and make them available to the people for generating income. A bridge between the user of capital and those who save but can’t use the funds themselves. 2. What are the functions of Banks? 1. Receipts of Deposits: 3 types of deposits- Current deposits‚ Savings deposits‚ Term deposits 2. Lending of Money: Cash Credit‚ Over Draft‚ Loans and Advances 3. Agency
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T he Sisyphean Corporation The Sisyphean Corporation is considering investing in a new cane manufacturing machine that has an estimated life of three years. The cost of the machine is $30‚000 and the machine will be depreciated straight line over its three-year life to a residual value of $0. The cane manufacturing machine will result in sales of 2‚000 canes in year 1. Sales are estimated to grow by 10% per year each year through year three. The price per cane that Sisyphean will charge
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QUE 1. a) Examine the key messages of motivation theory to organizations. (5mks) I. Motivation puts human resources into action. Every concern requires physical‚ financial and human resources to accomplish the goals. It is through motivation that the human resources can be utilized by making full use of it. This can be done by building willingness in employees to work. This will help the enterprise in securing best possible utilization of resources. II. Leads to achievement of organizational
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Kristine Palisano HW week 6 Individual-work 2 August 24‚ 2013 1. Describe the general characteristics of a future contract. How does a clearinghouse facilitate the trading of financial futures contracts? 2. How does the price of a financial futures contract change as the market price of the security it represents changes? Why? 3. Explain why some futures contracts may be more suitable than others for hedging exposure to interest rate risk. 4. Will speculators
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1. What abilities made it possible for Katniss to survive the Hunger Games? The abilities Katniss had to survive the hunger games were been able to hunt for her food with her archery skills. Knowledge from her father teaching her about the good and bad plants to eat. Knowing how to climb trees for hiding/sleep protection. She had good strategy’s with been alert to what was actually going on around her and a logical thinker for ways to get her opponents out the game without actually having to kill
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Samantha Becicka Macro Study Guide Chapter 3 1 We have scarce resources so in our choices of consumption we wish to maximize the satisfaction we receive from those choices. The economist terms this maximizing the __utility_________ 2 Since it is unlikely that we can grow our own food‚ sew our own clothes or build our house‚ it would be better if we would __specialize___ in what we do best and __exchange_ for those needs that others do better 3 The term _product market___ is a place where and
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1. Why did the Framers of the Constitution opt for a federal system rather than a unitary one? The experience with British rule had soured the Founders on the idea of one government with centralized and ultimate power. The new Americans did not care if tyranny came from a central government in America rather than from across the Atlantic—they wanted to make the potential for tyranny as remote as possible. In a federal system‚ both the states and the central government are sovereign within
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1.What were the economic and political policies of the states in the post reconstruction south? Throughout the post reconstruction period‚ the Democratic party dominated in almost every political aspect and controlled most state and local government decisions. The debt and finances were a huge issue in post reconstruction politics due to the debt reaching close to 17 million dollars by the year 1875. The debt itself consisted of a variety of bonds issued during the Reconstruction period. The simplest
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