What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of these personal letters as historical documents? For example, what insights do they provide that more formal documents, such as the Declaration of Independence, do not? How are the letters useful or limited in their historical value? How does the identity of the writer influence the content? Draw upon your chart to cite examples from the letters to prove your points.

Using the Comparative and Superlative Degrees of Irregular Modifiers. Fill in the blank with the form of the modifier requested in parentheses. One thousand miles is the------I have ever been from home. (far--superlative)

The Montvilles purchased 350 shares of Software Design Inc. stock at $\small \$20 \frac{3}{4}$ and sold 3 years later at $\small \$17 \frac{7}{8}$. They paid a 1.25% sales commission when they purchased the stock and paid a 3.25% sales commission when they sold. What was the profit or loss from the sale?

Either by hand or using a computer software package, sketch the phase plane diagrams for the given system. Discuss the stability of each limit cycle and critical point. Here $x=r \cos \theta$ and $y=r \sin \theta$.
$\frac{d x}{d t}=y+x \sin (1 / r)$,

$$\frac{d y}{d t}=-x+y \sin (1 / r)$$

Yard Designs (YD) experienced the following events in 2016, its first year of operation:

1. On October 1, 2016, YD collected $54,000 for consulting services it agreed to provide during the coming year.

2. Adjusted the accounts to reflect the amount of consulting service revenue recognized in 2016.

Required

Based on this information alone,

Record the events under an accounting equation.

Use L'Hopital's Rule to determine the comparative rates of increase of the functions $f(x)=x^m, \quad g(x)=e^{n x}$, and $h(x)=(\ln x)^n$ where $n>0, m>0$, and $x \rightarrow \infty$.
$\lim _{x \rightarrow \infty} \dfrac{x^m}{e^{n x}}$

Reliable Auto Service was started on January 1, 2016. The company experienced the following events during its first two years of operation:

Events Affecting 2016

1. Provided $45,000 of repair services on account.

2. Collected$32,000 cash from accounts receivable.

3. Adjusted the accounting records to reflect the estimate that uncollectible accounts expense would be 1 percent of the service revenue on account.

Events Affecting 2017

1. Wrote off a $320 account receivable that was determined to be uncollectible.

2. Provided$65,000 of repair services on account.

3. Collected $66,000 cash from accounts receivable.

4. Adjusted the accounting records to reflect the estimate that uncollectible accounts expense would be 1 percent of the service revenue on account.

Required

Record the events for 2016 in general journal form and post them to T-accounts.

Use the concept of an interval of time to describe how calculus views a particular instant of time.

In each sentence, underline the adjective or adverb used to compare. State whether it expresses comparative or superlative degree.

The most terrifying moment came when thieves knocked on the door, demanding money.

Determine the number of significant figures in each measurement. 508.0 L

If a country has relatively abundant unskilled labor, with scarce land and capital, it is more likely to have a comparative advantage in which of the following industries? Check all that apply.

d. Financial services.

How is chromosome gene linkage an exception to the law of independent assortment?

Your examination of the records of a company that follows the cash basis of accounting tells you that the company’s reported cash-basis earnings in 2014 are $33,640. If this firm had followed accrual-basis accounting practices, it would have reported the following year-end balances.

$$\begin{array}{lcc} \text{}&\underline{\textbf{2014}}&\underline{\textbf{2013}}\\ \text{Accounts receivable}&\text{\$\hspace{1pt}3,400}&\text{\$\hspace{1pt}2,800}\\ \text{Supplies on hand}&\text{\hspace{7pt}1,300}&\text{\hspace{7pt}1,460}\\ \text{Unpaid wages owed}&\text{\hspace{7pt}2,000}&\text{\hspace{7pt}2,400}\\ \text{Other unpaid expenses}&\text{\hspace{7pt}1,400}&\text{\hspace{7pt}1,100}\\ \end{array}$$

Instructions

Determine the company’s net earnings on an accrual basis for 2014. Show all your calculations in an orderly fashion.

Calculus $W$ is the set of all functions that are continuous on $[0,1]$. $V$ is the set of all functions that are integrable on $[0,1]$.