Organizing Use a graphic organizer similar to the one below to list the areas of life that people in the United States tried to improve during the early to mid-$1800$s.

The average dairy cow produces about 10000 kg of milk per year. Estimate the number of dairy cows needed to keep the United States supplied with milk.

Make vertical and horizontal bar graphs for the number of pets (in millions) in the United States.

Other things equal, if the United States continually runs trade deficits, foreigners will own U.S. assets.

a. More and more.

b. Less and less.

c. The same amount of.

Draw a line under the dangling or misplaced modifier in each sentence. The United States uses 30 percent of the world's energy with only 5 percent of the world's population.

The top three corn producers in the world-the United States, China, and Brazilgrew a total of about 652 million metric tons $\mathrm{(MT)}$ of corn in 2014. The United States produced $70$ million $\mathrm{(MT)}$ more than the combined production of China and Brazil. China produced $141$ million MT more than Brazil. Find the number of metric tons of corn produced by each country.

Rewrite the following sentence, inserting parentheses, end marks, and capital letters where necessary. Example 1. Lyndon B. Johnson $1908–1973$ was the thirty-sixth president of the United States. $\underline{\text{\color{#c34632}Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) was the thirty-sixth president of the United States.}}$

We should plan to have dinner Monday night. (do you think your plane will arrive on time)

The main objective of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 was to A establish a national government with limited powers. B create a system for bringing new states into the Union. C settle border disputes between the United States and Canada. D regulate interstate commerce and curb inflation. ml

In each of the following sentences, underline the prepositional phrase or phrases and circle the word that each phrase modifies.

Example 1. Alaska and Hawaii are the newest member $\boxed{states}$ $\underline{\text{of the Union}}$.

Both Alaska and Hawaii were once territories of the United States.

In a random sample of 100 four-year-old children in the United States, 76 were able to write their name. Determine the specified confidence interval for the proportion $p$ of four-year-olds in the United States who can write their name. Determine whether increasing the value of c increase or decrease the range of values for a confidence interval of a population proportion. Elaborate on why it happens mathematically and why it makes sense.

In the United States, taxpayers in the top 1 percent of the income distribution pay about _______ percent of their income in federal taxes. a. 5 b. 10 c. 20 d. 30

If the population of the United States suddenly grew because of a large immigration what would happen to wages? What would happen to the rents earned by the owners of land and capital?

In 2004 about 48 million tons of sulfuric acid was produced in the United States. Calculate the amount of sulfur (in grams and moles) used to produce that amount of sulfuric acid.

Why do you think the governments of the United States and other countries encouraged people on the home front to organize programs for such activities as scrap collection and Victory gardens?