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The Port Authority collected about $\$ 249$ million in tolls from this bridge. Write this number in scientific notation.

Each month you have $200 automatically deposited from your checking account into a discretionary savings account. Your plan is to leave the money in this account for the next 10 years in order to use the total at that time at your discretion. A scatter plot shows the number of months that have passed and the amount in your discretionary spending account each month. The explanatory x-variable is the number of months that have passed. The response y-variable is the amount in your savings account. Is there a positive or negative correlation? Explain.

You get paid on the first day of each month. You cash your check and pay all of your essential expenses. You keep the balance in your "discretionary spending" envelope. A scatter plot shows the number of days that have passed since you were paid and the amount left in your discretionary spending envelope. The explanatory x-variable is the number of days that have passed. The response y-variable is the amount left in your envelope. Is there a positive or negative correlation? Explain.

Classify each of the following costs for a jeans manufacturing company as a variable cost, committed fixed cost, or discretionary fixed cost.

h. Quality training for employees-typically given for 4 hours at a time, every 6 months

Write a short essay explaining how the sectional conflict over slavery reflected a tension between states rights and the authority of the federal government. What was the result of this tension?

Select a word or phrase that is closest in meaning to COUP D' ÉTAT.

(A) sudden overthrow of authority (B) diplomatic mission (C) container for important papers (D) senseless violence

Your study buddy queries you, "Why would governments agree to a fixed exchange rate system if central banks lose the capacity to exercise discretionary monetary policy under fixed exchange rates?" What is your reaction?

How does the scientifi c method differ from each of the methods listed here? a. Method of authority b. Method of rationalism c. Method of intuition

Fill in the blank spot in the following sentence.

$\underline{\phantom{\text{justekst}}}$ refers to the political system in which ultimate authority rests with the monarch.

What concerns might arise when Congress delegates decision-making authority to unelected leaders, sometimes called the fourth branch of government?

Classify each of the following costs for a jeans manufacturing company as a variable cost, committed fixed cost, or discretionary fixed cost.

d. The cost of landscaping and mowing the grass-the contract with a local mowing company runs from month to month

A responsibility center structure that considers investments made by the operating segments by using a common cost of capital percentage is called ________. A. return on investment B. residual income C. a profit center D. a discretionary cost center

The table below shows how each dollar of projected spending by the federal government for a recent year was distributed. (Source: Office of Management and Budget) Of the items listed, defense is the only discretionary spending by the federal government; all other items are fixed expenditures. The government predicted total expenses of $2,230 billion for the year.

a. Is at least one-fifth of federal spending discretionary spending?

b. Find the ratio of the fixed expenditures to the discretionary spending.

c. Find the amount of the budget to be spent on fixed expenditures.

d. Find the amount of the budget to be spent on Social Security.

Janine is analyzing spending habits of students in her high school. She finds a mean monthly discretionary expense of $70 spent on having meals out with friends. The standard deviation of a distribution is 5. What is the variance?