Use online resources to work on this chapter's questions. Please note that website information changes over time, and these changes may limit your ability to answer some of these questions. Clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch enjoyed phenomenal success in the late $1990$s. Between $1996$ and $2000$, its sales grew almost fourfold-from $\$ 335$ million to more than $\$ 1.2$ billion-and its stock price soared by more than $500 \%$. However, in $2002$, its growth rate had begun to slow down, and Abercrombie had a hard time meeting its quarterly earnings targets. As a result, the stock price in late $2002$ was about half of what it was $3$ years earlier. Abercrombie's struggles resulted from increased competition, a sluggish economy, and the challenges of staying ahead of the fashion curve. From late $2002$ until November $2007$, the company's stock rebounded strongly; however, its stock price declined during the $2008$ economic downturn. Its stock price rebounded until late October $2011$, when it began a downward trend again. Its stock price started to rise again in early $2013$, but has been on a downward trend since that time. Questions remain about the firm's long-term growth prospects. However, the company has been cutting costs and improving productivity with its focus on the supply chain. In addition, it has been actively repurchasing shares, indicating that management believes its shares are undervalued. The company continues to steadily expand stores abroad while closing underperforming domestic stores.

Given the questions about Abercrombie's future growth rate, analysts have focused on the company's earnings reports. Financial websites such as Yahoo! Finance, Morningstar, and MSN Money provide information on the company's recent earnings history along with a summary of analysts' earnings forecasts.

Based on analysts' forecasts, what is the expected long-term ($5$-year) growth rate in earnings?

Answer the following questions using notes in your Analyze a Map worksheet From looking at the map, how did the physical environment affect how the Canarsie lived? Why do you think the name of Penhawitz’s community disappeared from maps after this one? How would this map be different if the Canarsie people had created it?

QWERTY. What do those letters mean to you? The next time you sit down at a computer, look at the keyboard. You will find these six letters lined up on the left side of the top row of letters. You will also see that many of the alphabet's most commonly used letters-such as $e, i$, and $o$-can only be typed by moving your fingers away from the center row, which is where your fingers naturally fall. (1) The QWERTY keyboard indisputably lacks efficiency. (2) Did we get duped into using it? Today, typing is usually faster than writing by hand. (3) We could infer from this that our current keyboard design was created to maximize speed. (4) But this would be a fallacy. In fact, the keyboard was designed to be slow!

Originally, the typewriter was invented to provide readable, standardized print, not to increase the speed of writing. In the late 1860s, Christopher Sholes invented the first commercial typewriter. There was a problem, though: The typewriter keys tended to jam when people typed too fast. So Sholes arranged a keyboard so that letters commonly typed together, such as $t h$ and $s h$, could not be hit at the same time. Thus, the QWERTY arrangement was born. However, as typewriter design improved, keys stopped jamming. (5) In today's world, it is easy to refute the claim that the QWERTY keyboard arrangement is the best one. So why is it still in use?

The answer lies, at least in part, in a contest that took place in 1888. Mrs. L. V. Longley, head of a Cincinnati typing school, sponsored a race between her star pupil, Frank McGurrin, and rival typist, Louis Taub. (6) Mrs. Longley had developed a ten-finger typing method based on the QWERTY keyboard, and she became an apologist for the arrangement. McGurrin used a QWERTY keyboard; Taub did not. (7) In a highly publicized event, McGurrin soundly defeated Taub, substantiating the superiority of the QWERTY arrangement in the eyes of the public. (8) The truth is, however, that the contest was something of a red herring. The superiority of McGurrin's typing was probably a result of the "touch-typing" system he had developed, which enabled him to type without looking at the keys. Whatever its history, there is still strong resistance to changing the QWERTY keyboard. One reason is that most people are used to this keyboard. Those who already know how to type do not want to have to relearn this skill to accommodate a new arrangement. Also, companies that produce keyboards have a considerable financial investment in the current letter positions. (9) Not everyone has been dissuaded from trying to improve this keyboard design, however. Dr. Anton Dvorak patented a keyboard that puts all of the vowels on the line where we usually place our fingers. In one experiment, he found that a person's fingers traveled only one mile during a typical day's typing on his keyboard. In contrast, a person's fingers traveled at least sixteen miles when typing on the QWERTY keyboard. (10) These results imply that the Dvorak arrangement is superior. So the next time your fingers are tired from keyboarding, think of Dr. Dvorak. Perhaps someday his arrangement will give those fingers a rest. Each sentence below refers to a numbered sentence in the passage. Write the letter of the choice that gives the sentence a meaning that is closest to the original sentence. We could $\rule{2cm}{0.15mm}$ from this that our current keyboard design was created to maximize speed. a. suggest indirectly b. prove c. conclude d. believe mistakenly

Proteins that act as biological catalysts are called ____________________________________________________

Describe the contributions Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler made to modern astronomy.

Modern psychologists have proposed the facial feedback hypothesis based on the theories of _____________.

Which part of a modern firearm has the same function as the lock on a muzzleloader?

In modern manufacturing, which types of metal chips would be undesirable and why?

Jose and Trudy Engstrom, who live in Dallas, Texas, own a home that has a $246,000 market value. The rate of assessment is 80% of the market value. The tax rate in mills is composed of city, 7.292; school, 11.7264; county, 2.18935; and community college, 0.081. What are the (a) annual real estate tax for each entity and (b) total tax?

Using data from the 2010 census, a random sample of 348 U.S. residents aged 18 and older was selected. Among the variables recorded were gender (male or female), housing status (rent or own), and marital status (married or not married). The first two-way table summarizes the relationship between gender and housing status.

$$\begin{array} {lc} & \text{Gender} \\ \text {$\begin{matrix} \text{Housing}\\ \text{status}\\ \end{matrix}$} & \begin{array}{c|c|c|c} & \text { Male } & \text { Female } & \text { Total } \\ \hline \text { Own } & 132 & 122 & 254 \\ \hline \text { Rent } & 50 & 44 & 94 \\ \hline \text { Total } & 182 & 166 & 348 \end{array}\\ \end{array}$$

Make a graph to display the association between gender and housing status. Describe what you see.

For each sentence below, if the underlined pronoun is incorrect, cross it out and write the correct pronoun above it. If the underlined pronoun is already correct, write C above it.

Example 1. You’ll be riding to school each morning with $\overset{\textit{\color{#c34632}{him}}}{{\underline{\sout{\text{he}}}}}$ and Shannon.

The Carsons are working in our community garden.

What is meant by outgassing, and what modern phenomenon serves that role today ?

In how many different arrangements can 3 men and 3 women be seated in a row if no one sits next to a member of the same gender?

Mark the following statements as true or false. (1) a. The following is a valid $\mathrm{C}++$ enumeration type: (1) enum romanNumerals $\{\mathrm{I}, \mathrm{V}, \mathrm{X}, \mathrm{L}, \mathrm{C}, \mathrm{D}, \mathrm{M}\}$; b. Given the declaration: enum cars {FORD, GM, TOYOTA, HONDA}; cars domesticCars = FORD; the statement: domesticCars $=$ domesticCars $+1 ;$ sets the value of domesticCars to GM. $(1,2)$ c. The values in the domain of an enumeration type are called enumerators. (1) d. The only arithmetic operations allowed on the enumeration type are increment and decrement. (2) e. You can input the value of an enumeration type directly from a standard input device. (4) f. A function can return a value of an enumeration type. (6) g. The following are legal $\mathrm{C}++$ statements in the same block of a $\mathrm{C}++$ program: (1) enum mathStudent {BILL, JOHN, LISA, RON, CINDY, SHELLY}; enum historyStudent {AMANDA, BOB, JACK, TOM, SUSAN}; h. The following statement creates an anonymous type: (8) enum $\{A, B, C, D, F\}$ studentGrade; i. You can use the namespace mechanism with header files with the extension $\mathbf{h}$. (10) j. Suppose str $={ }^n \mathbf{A B C D}^{\boldsymbol{\prime}}$; . After the statement $\operatorname{str}[1]=\mathrm{a}^{\prime}$; , the value of str is "aBCD ${ }^{\mathbf{m}}$. (11) k. Suppose str $=$ "abcd". After the statement:

$$\text { str }=\text { str }+\text { "ABCD"; }$$

the value of str is "ABCD". (11)