The trees and shrubs that____ our yard provide a natural fence around our property. (encircle; nourish)

The following is stated in the charter of a civic organisation in the Pacific Northwest: "Our mission is to ensure that huge, powerful corporations pay their fair share of taxes in this country."

The group has advocated for raising the business income tax and lowering the individual income tax in order to carry out this purpose. Would you sign a petition like that? Justify your reasoning.

Mark Elarton, director of marketing, wants to reduce the selling price of his company’s products by 15% to increase market share. He says, “I know this will reduce our gross profit rate, but the increased number of units sold will make up for the lost margin.” Before this action is taken, what other factors does the company need to consider?

What is the difference between the market value per share and the par value per share?

The price of a share of stock rose 10% on Monday. The price then fell 10% on Tuesday to $59.40 per share. What was the price of a share of stock before trading began on Monday?

Conformity is best described as a. sharing our moods. b. unconsciously mimicking others. c. changing how we think about others. d. adjusting our behavior or thinking toward some group standard. e. bringing our attitudes in line with our actions.

What is the difference between the market value per share and the par value per share?

What role does the cost of capital play in the firm’s long-term investment decisions? How does it relate to the firm’s ability to maximize shareholder wealth?

Analyze the document and answer the short-answer questions that follow the document. During Mao Zedong's rule in China, people studied his sayings for guidance on how to live and work. Some were quoted as proverbs. Here are a few of the many sayings that were reproduced and quoted. We must see to it that all our cadres [government workers] and all our people constantly bear in mind that ours is a big socialist country but an economically backward and poor one, and that this is a very great contradiction. To make China rich and strong needs several decades of intense effort, which will include, among other things, the effort to practise strict economy and combat waste, i.e., the policy of building up our country through diligence and frugality. The wealth of society is created by the workers, peasants and working intellectuals. If they take their destiny into their own hands, follow a Marxist-Leninist line and take an active attitude in solving problems instead of evading them, there will be no difficulty in the world which they cannot overcome. What is work? Work is struggle. There are difficulties and problems in those places for us to overcome and solve. We go there to work and struggle to overcome these difficulties. A good comrade is one who is more eager to go where the difficulties are greater. -Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung [Mao Zedong]. According to Mao Zedong, who creates the wealth of a country?

We must determine the percentage of our money to be invested in stocks x and Let a = percentage of money invested in x and b = 1 − a = percentage of money invested in y. A choice of a and b is called a portfolio. A portfolio is efficient if there exists no other portfolio whose return has a higher mean return and lower variance, or a higher mean return and the same variance, or a lower variance with the same mean return. Let x be the mean return on stock x and y be the mean return on stock y. The variance of the annual return on one share of stock x is var x, and the variance of the annual return on one share of stock y is var y. Assume that the covariance between the annual return for one share of x and one share of y is cov(x, y). If we invest a% of our money in stock x and b% in stock y, the variance of the return is given by $a^{2} \text { var } x+b^{2} \text { var } y+2 a b \operatorname{cov}(x, y)$ Consider the following NLP:

$$\begin{array}{c}{\max z=a \overline{x}+b \overline{y}} \\ {\text { s.t. } \quad a^{2} \operatorname{var} x+b^{2} \text { var } y+2 a b \operatorname{cov}(x, y) \leq v^{*}} \\ {a+b=1}\end{array}$$

where v* is a given non-negative number. a. Show that any solution to this NLP is an efficient portfolio. b. Show that as v* ranges over all non-negative numbers, all efficient portfolios are obtained.

How do we study the relationship between our genetic inheritance and our traits and behavior?

The underlined portion of each sentence below contains some flaw. Select the answer choice that best corrects the flaw. $\underline{ If\ our\ radio\ is\ turned\ on\ and\ loud\ all\ the\ time\ and\ we\ don't\ do\ our\ homework\ properly }$ A. If our radio is turned on and loud all the time, we don't do our homework properly. B. Our homework isn't done properly if the radio is too loud, and it's on all the time. C. If our radio is on all the time, and turned up too loud, and we don't do our homework properly. D. We don't do our homework properly, and the radio is on all the time and it's too loud. E. We have the radio on all the tine and up too loud if we don't do our homework properly.

The price of a share of stock in XYZ Corporation was $74 two weeks ago. Seven weeks ago, the price was$59 a share.

a. Write a linear equation to find the price $p$ of a share of XYZ Corporation stock $w$ weeks from now.

b. Estimate the price of a share of stock five weeks ago.

Men of Fortune During the era in which this story takes place, the top leaders of business and industry often gained national prominence due to their vast wealth and influence. Investigate one of the following men from that era: John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, or J. P. Morgan. Explain how your subject became wealthy and whether he used his wealth to help others.