Since most individual countries recognise the need for a
National ‘Lender of Last Resort’, why has it proved so difficult to
agree on an International ‘Lender of Last Resort’? How has the
absence of an international lender been dealt with and with what
success?
Mergers and acquisitions are one of the most important trends in
banking in the last generation. Please find one example of a major
merger in the last twenty years. Give a brief description of each
bank before the merger, the motivation for the merger, and the
final product after the merger.
In alphabetical order, the six most common last names in the United States in 2018 are Brown, Garcia, Johnson, Jones, Smith, and Williams (United States Census Bureau website). Assume that a sample of 50 individuals with one of these last names provided the following data:
Summarize the data by constructing the following:
Relative and percent frequency distributions
A bar chart
A sorted bar chart
A pie chart
Based on these data, what are the most common last names? Which type of...
The most important factors in selecting an insurance company, in
order of importance are:
a.
financial stability, treatment of policyholders and cost
b.
cost, financial stability and treatment of policyholders
c.
agent, cost and financial stability
d.
treatment of policyholders, cost and agent
Arrange the following in the decreasing order (most
important first) of their importance, for the welfare of human
society. Give reasons for your answer. Biogas, citric acid,
penicillin and curd.
Arrange the following in the order of increasing acidity. List
the most acidic last.
CH3OH
CH3CO2H
CH3CH2CH2CH3
If given a table of acids and their pKas, how do you determine
which acid is stronger, especially when the table does not have the
compounds that are above listed on the table?
Here is a chart of the table given.
HCl pKa= -7. CH3CO2H pKa= 4.8. H2O pKa= 15.7. CH3CH2OH pKa= 16.
CHCH pKa= 25. H2 pKa= 35. H2NH pKa= 38. CH2CH2...