a. What is the most common way to determine an intelligence test's reliability? b. Why are the Wechsler scales more widely used than the Stanford-Binet test? c. Other than vocabulary and problem solving methods, what else might cause intelligence tests to be culturally biased?

Intelligence quotients on the Stanford-Binet intelligence test are normally distributed with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 16. Intelligence quotients on the Wechsler intelligence test are normally distributed with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15. Use this information to solve. Use z-scores to determine which person has the higher IQ: an individual who scores 150 on the Stanford-Binet or an individual who scores 148 on the Wechsler.

Suppose that you are a Portuguese merchant trying to establish trade relations with Southeast Asia. Write a letter to the authorities in Portugal explaining the particular difficulties you are encountering in Southeast Asia.

Select the correct answer for each of the following questions.

1. In the registration and sales of new securities issues, the SEC

$\quad\quad$ a. Endorses a security's investment merit by allowing its registration to "go effective."

$\quad\quad$ b. Provides a rating of the investment quality of the security.

$\quad\quad$ c. Disallows the registration to "go effective" if it judges the security's investment risk to be too great.

$\quad\quad$ d. Allows all registrations to "go effective" if the issuing company's external accountant is satisfied that disclosures and representations are not misleading.

$\quad\quad$ e. Does not make any guarantees regarding the material accuracy of the registration statement.

2. The 1933 Securities Act provides for a 20-day review period between the filing and the effective date of the registration. During this review period, the registrant is prohibited from

$\quad\quad$ a. Preparing any amendments to the registration statement.

$\quad\quad$ b. Announcing the prospective issue of the securities being registered.

$\quad\quad$ c. Accepting offers from potential investors to purchase the securities being registered.

$\quad\quad$ d. Placing an advertisement indicating by whom orders for the securities being registered will be accepted.

$\quad\quad$ e. Issuing a prospectus in preliminary form.

3. Before turning over the proceeds of a securities offering to a registrant, the underwriters frequently require a comfort letter from the public accountant. The comfort letter's purpose is to

$\quad\quad$ a. Remove the public distrust of a red herring by converting the letter into a prospectus.

$\quad\quad$ b. Indicate whether the public accountant found any adverse financial change between the date of audit and the effective date of the securities offering.

$\quad\quad$ c. Provide assurance from the public accountant's audit of the stub-period financial statements contained in the registration statement.

$\quad\quad$ d. State that SEC regulations requiring the public accountant to give an opinion as an expert on the registrant's financial statements have been met.

$\quad\quad$ e. Indicate that the offering conforms to New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) member requirements that a comfort letter from a public accountant be obtained before public sale of securities.

Why is freezing water a physical change?

To provide more reliability than a single parity bit can give, an error-detecting coding scheme uses one parity bit for checking all the odd-numbered bits and a second parity bit for all the even-numbered bits. What is the Hamming distance of this code?

What led to Western dominance in Southeast Asia?

What prompted European interest in trading with Asia?

Dr. Pilai worked with the government to create standards tor people seeking obs as airport security screners. She included assessments in the Interview process, designs for the flow of the security process itself, and measures for evaluating the job performance of these screeners. Which psychology career category best fits Dr. Pilai's work? a. Developmental. b. Clinical. c. Forensic. d. Industrial-organizational. e. Community.

What is the physical manifestation of an organism's genes?

Sketch or describe physical weathering processes.

The $2010$ population of Asia was $4121$ million; in $2050$, it is projected to be $5231$ million. Write the exponential growth function that describes the population of Asia, in millions, $t$ years after $2010$.

A home security company charges new customers $155 for the installation of security equipment and a monthly fee of$40. To attract more customers, the company reduces its installation fee to $75. The functions below give the total cost for x months of service: Regular fee: f(x) = 40x +155 Reduced fee: g(x) = 40x + 75 Graph both functions. How is the graph of g related to the graph of f?

Why is the melting of ice a physical change?