Analyze this scenario. You are a long-distance runner on your school’s track team. How could you use your management skills to make sure you get enough fluids?

Make a list of the personal interests and skills of the accountants described in each situation. Compare the list to your own interests and skills. Then think of three types of businesses (or actual companies) for which you might want to work. How would you learn about accounting career opportunities in those companies? Aside from pursuing needed training or education, what else would you do to prepare to work in that career? Share your ideas in class.

Write the letter of the skill or skills being used in each blank below. More than one skill may be needed for each activity.

Skills:

a. Understand spoken medical terms.

b. Speak accurately and precisely using medical terms.

c. Write accurately and precisely using medical terms

d. Read and understand medical terms.

e. Think critically about medical language.

_____ Using the Internet and textbooks to learn more about a disease or condition.

Businesses actively recruit business students with welldeveloped higher-order cognitive skills (HOCS) such as problem identification, analytical reasoning, and content integration skills. Researchers conducted a study to see if improvement in students' HOCS was related to the students' GPA.

The researchers conducted a study in which business students were taught using the case study method. Using data collected from $300$ business students, the following quadratic regression equation was derived:

$$\text{HOCS} = -3.48 + 4.53(\text{GPA}) - 0.68(\text{GPA})^2$$

where the dependent variable HOCS measured the improvement in higher-order cognitive skills, with 1 being the lowest improvement in HOCS and 1 being the highest improvement in HOCS.

a. Construct a table of predicted HOCS, using GPA equal to $2.0,\;2.1, \;2.2, .. . ,\;4.0$.

Fill in the blank out of the following terms using the correct definitions. A. Resume B. Cover letter C. Curriculum vitae ___________ A brief document that summarizes your education, work experience, and skills.

Name three skills that scientists use to learn more about the natural world. b. How do observing and inferring differ? c. Is this statement an observation or an inference? It must be raining outside. Explain.

Complete the sentences by inferring information about the italicized word from its context. If people avoid you because you always $\mathit{declaim}$ your own skills, then you should probably learn to...

The care given by mammals to their young a. begins after the young are weaned. b. is similar to that given by reptiles. c. involves nursing and teaching survival skills. d. ends soon after the young are born.

Suppose you want to know if the color of people's hair affects how warm it can keep their heads. Describe the skills you would use to conduct an experiment to test your inquiry.

Scientists refer to plate tectonics as a theory. What is a theory? How is plate tectonics a theory? Why isn't continental drift considered a theory? (Hint: Refer to the Skills Handbook for more on theories.)

Write the letter for the word that best completes given sentence.
________ After _____ to France, Josh immediately worked on improving his French-speaking skills. a. preceding
b. affecting
c. emigrating
d. immigrating

$\text{\blue{VISUAL SKILLS}}$ Compare Figure $20.7$ with Figure 16.21. How does replication of DNA ends during PCR proceed without shortening the fragments each time?

Care given by mammals to their young

a. begins after the young are weaned.

b. is similar to that given by reptiles.

c. involves nursing and teaching survival skills.

d. ends soon after the young are born.

For the given item in the Vocabulary Skills section, choose the word that best completes the sentence.

His dreary lesson was the ___________ of his week.

F. deliberation G. renown H. bane J. guile