Identify and discuss the most lasting contribution of each of the four major cultures we have studied to the development of Western Civilization.
Ancient Near Eastern
Classical Greek and Roman
Medieval
Renaissance/Reformation
23% of a certain​ country’s voters think that it is too easy to vote in their country. You randomly select 12 likely voters. Find the probability that the number of likely voters who think that it is too easy to vote is​ (a) exactly​ three, (b) at least​ four, (c) less than eight.
2)ThirtyThirty percent of households say they would feel secure if they had​ $50,000 in savings. You randomly select 88 households and ask them if they would feel secure if they had​ $50,000 in savings. Find the probability that the number that say they would feel secure is​ (a) exactly​ five, (b) more than​ five, and​ (c) at most five.
3)46% of adults say cashews are their favorite kind of nut. You randomly select 12 adults and ask each to name his or her favorite nut. Find the probability that the number who say cashews are their favorite nut is​ (a) exactly​ three, (b) at least​ four, and​ (c) at most two. If​ convenient, use technology to find the probabilities.
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37​% of college students say they use credit cards because of the rewards program. You randomly select 10 college students and ask each to name the reason he or she uses credit cards. Find the probability that the number of college students who say they use credit cards because of the rewards program is​ (a) exactly​ two, (b) more than​ two and​ (c) between two and five inclusive. If​ convenient, use technology to find the probabilities.
5)33​% of adults would pay more for environmentally friendly products. You randomly select 10 adults. Find the probability that the number of adults who would pay more for environmentally friendly products is​ (a) exactly​ two, (b) more than​ two, and​ (c) between two and​ five, inclusive.
6)38% of women consider themselves fans of professional baseball. You randomly select six women and ask each if she considers herself a fan of professional baseball. Complete parts​ (a) through​ (d) below.
Two trains, 200 km apart, move toward each other at the speed of 50 km/hour each.
A wasp takes off from one train, flying straight toward the other at 75 km/hour
On reaching the other train, the wasp bounces off it and flies back to the first train.
The wasp repeats the trip until the trains collide and the wasp is squashed.
What total distance did this wasp travel until its death?
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49​% of men consider themselves professional baseball fans. You randomly select 10 men and ask each if he considers himself a professional baseball fan. Find the probability that the number who consider themselves baseball fans is​ (a) exactly​ five, (b) at least​ six, and​ (c) less than four.
Imagine that you are interested in the following research question: “What are the differences in perceptions of self-efficacy among counseling students in online and land-based counseling graduate degree programs?”
In order to investigate this research question:
Develop an operational definition of self-efficacy.
Construct a 10-item survey to measure the self-efficacy of the counseling students. The survey should be based on one of the designs in the Learning Resources.
Briefly discuss your rationale for the items you included.
Briefly describe your method of data collection and data analysis.
Explain the challenges of constructing a survey of this nature. Be specific and use examples.
The goal of this exercise is to understand the role of correlation in the risk-return tradeoff.
Assume there are two risky securities with the following characteristics. E(r1) = 20%, σ1 = 25%, E(r2) = 6%, and σ2 = 10%. Compute the risk and return for portfolios in the investment opportunity set assuming the correlation coefficient between the returns of these securities is: (a) -1 (b) -0.5 (c) 0 (d) 0.5 (e) 1. Start with -50% in security 1 and go up to 150% in security 1 in increments of 5%. Draw the following 3 graphs and please make sure that the axes are marked clearly and all the lines are marked clearly in the graphs.
a) Expected return of the overall portfolio as a function of the weight in the riskier security. Please show the results for all 5 values of correlation in a single graph. If all the 5 lines are the same, then explain why this is so. If all the 5 lines are different, then also explain why this is so.
b) Standard deviation of the overall portfolio as a function of the weight in the riskier security. Please show the results for all 5 values of correlation in a single graph. What should be the correlation if the line is to be straight? Intuitively explain why this is so. Is it possible to reduce portfolio risk to zero? If so, what should be the correlation? What return do you think that this portfolio with standard deviation of zero will earn?
c) Expected return of the overall portfolio as a function of standard deviation of the overall portfolio. Please show the results for all 5 values of correlation in a single graph.
2. The goal of this exercise is to construct the optimal risky portfolio for a passive investor with no stock-picking skills.
There are many securities traded in the market place. To form the investment opportunity set, we have to consider all possible portfolios: all 1-asset portfolios, all 2-asset portfolios, 3-asset portfolios, 4-asset portfolios….I have given various 3-asset portfolios, where the three assets are different for each portfolio. The means (in % per year), standard deviations (in % per year), and correlation coefficients between asset returns are also given. Please download this data from BB-Vista.
Do the following:
a) Compute the mean and standard deviation for all the portfolios.
b) Draw a scatter plot of all the portfolios (investment opportunity set) on a mean-standard deviation graph
c) Highlight the minimum variance frontier based on these results. In Excel, you can use the following tool: Insert à Shape à Scribble to draw the minimum variance frontier in free form.
d) Highlight the efficient frontier based on these results. Use the tol described above to highlight the efficient frontier.
e) Which portfolio has the minimum variance?
f) Which portfolio has the highest expected return?
g) Are the minimum variance and highest expected return portfolios identified in the above two steps part of the efficient frontier? Explain the result intuitively.
h) If the current risk free rate = 2% per year, which of the risky portfolios is optimal? Draw the capital allocation line. Circle the optimal risky portfolio in the graph clearly.
Need someone to do a 15 slide presentaion on Genesis 1-2. Â Here is the assigment details:
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In this assignment you will summarize beliefs about the origin of the universe and life, including what Christians believe, what you believe, and how people’s beliefs about origins might impact how they live.
After reflecting on Chapters 1 and 2 of Genesis, create a 15-slide PowerPoint presentation covering the following topics, paying particular emphasis on item three:
Briefly explain the Genesis account of creation (first two chapters). The point is not to retell all aspects of the story in detail but just to make the message of the Bible clear.
Explain and support your interpretation of the origin of the universe. Here you may want to address evolution, age of the earth, and whether or not it can be reconciled with the message of the Bible.
Express how your understanding of the origin of the universe impacts your worldview, specifically your view of God, of humanity, and responsibility to care for the earth.
The first slide will be the title slide including your name and course information. The last slide(s) will be your list of references. You may use the textbook, the lecture, or other scholarly references. Cite all sources, including the Bible, as you would in an essay. The in-text citations should be placed on the actual slides in the presentation so the audience can see them. Put basic content on the actual slides and elaborate on all your points in the slide notes.
The goal of this exercise is to understand the role of correlation in the risk-return tradeoff.
Assume there are two risky securities with the following characteristics. E(r1) = 20%, σ1 = 25%, E(r2) = 6%, and σ2 = 10%. Compute the risk and return for portfolios in the investment opportunity set assuming the correlation coefficient between the returns of these securities is: (a) -1 (b) -0.5 (c) 0 (d) 0.5 (e) 1. Start with -50% in security 1 and go up to 150% in security 1 in increments of 5%. Draw the following 3 graphs and please make sure that the axes are marked clearly and all the lines are marked clearly in the graphs.
a) Expected return of the overall portfolio as a function of the weight in the riskier security. Please show the results for all 5 values of correlation in a single graph. If all the 5 lines are the same, then explain why this is so. If all the 5 lines are different, then also explain why this is so.
b) Standard deviation of the overall portfolio as a function of the weight in the riskier security. Please show the results for all 5 values of correlation in a single graph. What should be the correlation if the line is to be straight? Intuitively explain why this is so. Is it possible to reduce portfolio risk to zero? If so, what should be the correlation? What return do you think that this portfolio with standard deviation of zero will earn?
c) Expected return of the overall portfolio as a function of standard deviation of the overall portfolio. Please show the results for all 5 values of correlation in a single graph.
2. The goal of this exercise is to construct the optimal risky portfolio for a passive investor with no stock-picking skills.
There are many securities traded in the market place. To form the investment opportunity set, we have to consider all possible portfolios: all 1-asset portfolios, all 2-asset portfolios, 3-asset portfolios, 4-asset portfolios….I have given various 3-asset portfolios, where the three assets are different for each portfolio. The means (in % per year), standard deviations (in % per year), and correlation coefficients between asset returns are also given. Please download this data from BB-Vista.
Do the following:
a) Compute the mean and standard deviation for all the portfolios.
b) Draw a scatter plot of all the portfolios (investment opportunity set) on a mean-standard deviation graph
c) Highlight the minimum variance frontier based on these results. In Excel, you can use the following tool: Insert à Shape à Scribble to draw the minimum variance frontier in free form.
d) Highlight the efficient frontier based on these results. Use the tol described above to highlight the efficient frontier.
e) Which portfolio has the minimum variance?
f) Which portfolio has the highest expected return?
g) Are the minimum variance and highest expected return portfolios identified in the above two steps part of the efficient frontier? Explain the result intuitively.
h) If the current risk free rate = 2% per year, which of the risky portfolios is optimal? Draw the capital allocation line. Circle the optimal risky portfolio in the graph clearly.
Once upon a time, when I was very tired, I chanced to go away to a little house by the sea. “It is empty,” they said, “but you can easily furnish it.” Empty! Yes, thank Heaven! Furnish it? Heaven forbid! Its floors were bare, its walls were bare, its tables there were only two in the house were bare. There was nothing in the closets but books; nothing in the bureau drawers but the smell of clean, fresh wood; nothing in the kitchen but an oil stove, and a few a very few dishes; nothing in the attic but rafters and sunshine, and a view of the sea. After I had been there an hour there descended upon me a great peace, a sense of freedom, of in finite leisure. In the twilight I sat before the flickering embers of the open fire, and looked out through the open door to the sea, and asked myself, “Why?” Then the answer came: I was emancipated from things. There was nothing in the house to demand care, to claim attention, to cumber my consciousness with its insistent, unchanging companionship. There was nothing but a shelter, and outside, the fields and marshes, the shore and the sea. These did not have to be taken down and put up and arranged and dusted and cared for. They were not things at all, they were powers, presences.
And so I rested. While the spell was still unbroken, I came away. For broken it would have been, I know, had I not fled first. Even in this refuge the enemy would have pursued me, found me out, encompassed me.
If we could but free ourselves once for all, how simple life might become! One of my friends, who, with six young children and only one servant, keeps a spotless house and a soul serene, told me once how she did it. “My dear, once a month I give away every single thing in the house that we do not imperatively need. It sounds wasteful, but I don’t believe it really is. Sometimes Jeremiah mourns over missing old clothes, or back numbers of the magazines, but I tell him if he doesn’t want to be mated to a gibbering maniac he will let me do as I like.”
The old monks knew all this very well. One wonders sometimes how they got their power; but go up to Fiesole, and sit a while in one of those little, bare, white-walled cells, and you will begin to understand. If there were any spiritual force in one, it would have to come out there.
I have not their courage, and I win no such freedom. I allow myself to be overwhelmed by the invading host of things, making fitful resistance, but without any real steadiness of purpose. Yet never do I wholly give up the struggle, and in my heart I cherish an ideal, remotely typified by that empty little house beside the sea.
Which words from the excerpt does Morris use to refer to things?
Read ONLY ORIGINAL research reports. Published opinions, descriptions, current practices, or idea articles are NOT research. An original research study has sufficient details and specific language so that you are able to use direct quotations to provide information on (1) the statement of the problem investigated, (2) The research questions or hypotheses, (3) The methodology for answering those questions, (4) The findings, and (5) the conclusions.
After you identify an article that definitely is an original research report, abstract it very carefully by including the 5 aspects above (use direct quotes in this section. In general this abstract should not exceed 200- 400 words. (One page). Avoid distorting the author’s ideas by staying as closely as possible to his\her terminology by using direct quotes.