In a make or buy decision, management should consider all of the following except a. opportunity costs of making internally. b. costs that are avoidable by buying outside the company. c. costs common to making internally or buying outside the company. d. other qualitative factors.

In a pilot project, a rural township is given recycling bins for separating and storing recyclable products. The cost (in dollars) for supplying bins to $p \%$ of the population is

$$C=\frac{25,000 p}{100-p}, \quad 0 \leq p<100.$$

Find the cost if $90 \%$ of the population gets bins.

Why was affirmative action first introduced in the United States?

a. Use the two points for Hispanics to find a function in the form $p(x)=m x+b$ that models the percentage of Hispanics, $p(x)$, in the United States population $x$ years after $2008$. Round $m$ to two decimal places.
b. Use the model from part (a) to project the percentage of Hispanics in the United States in $2108$.

Compare and Contrast How might the fuel-use by people living in the northeastern United States differ from fuel-use by people who live in the southern and southwestern United States?

What is price-fixing, and why is it illegal in the United States?

Which revision should be made to this passage to improve its organization?

A. Switch sentences 3 and 4 .

B. Delete sentence 1 .

C. Switch sentences 1 and 2 .

D. Delete sentence 3 .

Choose the verb in parentheses that correctly completes each of the sentences on the following page.

EXAMPLE: (Has, Have) you or your sister ever been in a play? Have

We're going to see whether the PTA (has, have) any resources available for a project like this.

Underline the word in parentheses that correctly completes the sentence.

Example 1. For this project, you must split up into (to, too, $\underline{\text{two}}$) groups.

Tim, (who's, whose) family moved here from Arizona, isn't used to the cold weather.

On April 1, 2000, the day of the 2000 national census, the population of the United States was $281,421,906$ people. This was a $13.2 \%$ increase from the 1990 census. What was the 1990 population of the United States?

The gross domestic product (GDP) for the United States in 2006 was $13.06 trillion, and the GDP per person was$43,800. Use order of magnitude to approximate the population of the United States in 2006.

Add a further field, of your choosing, to the Track class, and provide accessor and mutator methods to query and manipulate it. Find a way to use this information in your version of the project; for instance, include it in a track’s details string, or allow it to be set via a method in the MusicOrganizer class.

A stretch of $12 \frac{3}{5}$ mi of highway is being repaired. The project foreman reported that less than half of the job is complete. Draw a diagram to show the remaining miles to be repaired. Then write an inequality for the number of miles m that still need repair.

The United States produces beef and also imports beef from other countries.

Discuss who benefits and who loses when the United States imposes a tariff on beef.