Like the government, individuals benefit from budgets. Plan your coming month's expenditures. Start with your current income. List your necessary expenditures. What, if anything, is left for discretionary spending?

Grocery store clerks are negotiating with their company management for a 6.5-percent increase in their hourly wage. The average hourly wage of a clerk is $14.75. The company has 35 clerks who each work a 40-hour week, 50 weeks per year. The clerks receive a two-week paid vacation each year. What would the pay raise cost per year?

You throw a bar magnet downward with its south end pointing down. The bar magnet has a magnetic dipole moment of $1.2 \mathrm{A} \cdot \mathrm{m}^{2} .$ Lying on the table is a nearly flat circular coil of 1000 turns of wire, with radius 5 cm. The coil is connected to an oscilloscope, which has a very large resistance. On a diagram, show the pattern of non-Coulomb electric field in the coil. Explain briefly.

An area of 400 square meters is to be roped off for a farmers' market that is to be in the shape of a circle. What will be the diameter of this circle, to the nearest tenth of a meter?

Which fiscal policy strategy do you think policymakers would use in each of these scenarios and why? (a) Inflation is rising, and real GDP is up by 4 percent. (b) GDP is down, and the unemployment rate has increased to 10 percent.

The ________ of the bony fish evolved to counter the effects of increased bone density. a. gills b. jaws c. swim bladder d. teeth

Which fiscal policy strategy do you think policymakers would use in each of these scenarios? Explain your answers, (a) Inflation is rising, and real GDP is up by 4 percent, (b) GDP is down, and the unemployment rate has increased to 10 percent.

(a) What are the four basic steps in the federal budget process? (b) What is the advantage of having both the President and Congress involved in the budget process?

List the main ingredients in a sauce.

The letters ABCDE are used to form strings of length 3. How many strings begin with A, allowint repetitions?

Why might an infection by Gram-negative bacteria be more difficult to treat than a Gram-positive bacterial infection?

¿Cuál es la forma correcta del pronombre demostrativo?
A - ¿Cuáles son las banderas para la manifestación? B - _____, las que están ahí al lado de la puerta.

What do the occupations of the Working Men's Party candidates suggest about its definition of "worker" (source 6)?

(a) Let r be a primitive root of the odd prime p. Establish that the exponential congruence

$$a^{x} \equiv b(\bmod p)$$

has a solution if and only if $d |$ ind $_{r} b,$ where the integer $d=\operatorname{gcd}\left(\operatorname{ind}_{r} a, p-1\right) ;$ in this case, there are $d$ incongruent solutions modulo $p-1 .$ (b) Solve the exponential congruences $4^{x} \equiv 13(\bmod 17)$ and $5^{x} \equiv 4(\bmod 19)$