Jordan Enterprises is considering a capital expenditure that requires an initial investment of $\$ 42,000$ and returns after-tax cash inflows of $\$ 7,000$ per year for $10$ years. The firm has a maximum acceptable payback period of $8$ years. a. Calculate the payback period for this project.

Think of the United States as a person and jot down notes about the view the United States had of itself. Is the new nation pleased with itself? Does it feel confident or confused?

The "Garbage Project" at the University of Arizona reports that the amount of paper discarded by households per week is normally distributed with mean 4.5 kg and standard deviation 1.9 kg. What percentage of households throw out at least 5 kg of paper a week?

Match the terms with the definitions.

An organized strategy for controlling financial loss from pure risks and insurable risks

a. deductible

b. risk assessment

c. risk assumption

d. risk avoidance

e. risk management

f. risk reduction

g. risk shifting

Use the map on page 266. Compare the soil types in the eastern United States with those in the western United States. What type of soil is found where you live?

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.

Making Verbs Agree with Singular and Plural Subjects. For each sentence, underline the subject once, and underline the verb that agrees with the subject twice. Then label the sentence $S$ if the subject is singular and $P$ is the subject is plural. The girls' project (earn, earns) them a very good grade.

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.

Name the three deserts found in the United States.

(Class Project) Have each student in the class respond to the question "Which carbonated soft drink do you most prefer?" so that the instructor can tally the results into a summary table.

a. Convert the data to percentages and construct a Pareto chart.

b. Analyze the findings.

Use critical thinking to address the key issue. In an ABC "Nightline" poll, 186,000 viewers each paid 50 cents to call a "900" telephone number with their opinion about keeping the United Nations in the United States. The results showed that 67% of those who called were in favor of moving the United Nations out of the United States. Interpret the results by identifying what we can conclude about the way the general population feels about keeping the United Nations in the United States.

In an efficient market, professional portfolio management can offer all of the following benefits except which of the following?

a. Low-cost diversification.

b. A targeted risk level.

c. Low-cost record keeping.

d. A superior risk-return trade-off.

Group Project: Collect the shoe size of everyone in the class. Use the sample means and variances and the types of plots presented in this chapter to summarize any features that draw a distinction between the distributions of shoe sizes for males and females. Do the same for the height of everyone in the class.

The equation

$$y = 281(1.0l)^x$$

is a model for the population of the United States y, in millions of people, x years after the year 2000. Estimate when the United States population will reach 400 million people.