1. Imelda has a large collection of shoes. She has 20 pairs of sneakers of which: 9 pairs are canvas and 11 are leather; 8 pairs are white, 7 are black, and 5 are red; 5 pairs are white and canvas, 1 pair is black and canvas, and 2 pairs are red and leather. Suppose Imelda selects a pair of sneakers at random from this collection of 20 pairs.

a) What is the probability that she selects a red canvas pair?

b) Given that the pair she selected is canvas, what is the probability that they are red?

c) Given that the pair she selected is red, what is the probability that they are canvas?

d) What is the probability that she selects a white leather pair?

e) Given that the pair she selected is white, what is the probability that they are leather?

f) Given that the pair she selected is leather, what is the probability that they are white?

Think about the writing you do as a professional, a volunteer, a citizen, or a friend. Respond to the following questions and, if it's relevant, include your own personal experience:

Which two patterns of writing do you most frequently use? Describe how you use them. Which two do you least frequently use? Explain why you don't use them. Which pattern(s) would most help you achieve your goals? Identify ways these patterns could benefit you.

Refer to the section “The Prevalence of Oligopoly” and review the formula for Herfindahl-Hirschman Index of HHI.

Assume an industry consists of six firms with the following market share:

Firm                  Market Share (%)

A                                 12

B                                 24

C                                 14

D                                 22

E                                  20

F                                  8

Calculate HHI. How would this industry be characterized by the Justice Department guidelines?

For each of the following situations, decide whether advertising is directly informative about the product or simply an indirect signal of its quality. Explain your reasoning.

1. Football great Peyton Manning drives a Buick in a TV commercial and claims that he prefers it to any other car.
2. McDonald’s spends millions of dollars on an advertising campaign that proclaims: “I’m lovin’ it.”
3. Subway advertises one of its sandwiches by claiming that it contains 6 grams of fat and fewer than 300 calories.
4. Define public goods and private goods with particular reference to non-exclusion principle
5. Free ridership is an important issue in providing certain public goods. In your opinion, does free ridership have an impact on income distribution in our society? Explain.

Consider two boxes B1 and B2. B1 has 10 red and 3 green balls where B2 has 6 red and 4 green balls. You are selecting one ball at random from B1 (Without replacement) and adding that to B2.Finally selecting one ball from B2. Find the following probabilities

a) What is the probability of selecting a red ball from B1? (3 points)

b) What is the probability of selecting a red ball from B2? (7 points)

please use own words don't plagiarise,

1. Provide a high-level overview of the US health care system. Discuss how your personal worldview may influence your perspective on the healthcare system in relation to cost, quality, and access.( Explain in details and with references to support)

2. Discuss the commonalities and differences between individual and population health. Provide an example of each, along with a time when a provider would be concerned about both concurrently..( Explain in details and with references to support)

3. The Pareto efficiency is a simple idea, but it is difficult to achieve. Why is this? Provide an example. ( Explain in details and with references to support)

4. Describe perfect competition as it relates to health care economics. What are the key characteristics? Does perfect competition provide an advantage or disadvantage to the consumer? To the health care provider/organization? Provide an example of perfect competition within health care.( Explain in details and with references to support)

please use APA 6 references to cite them

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The Video "What's Wrong With What We Eat?" explains our health care crisis. Using appropriate college-level writing, engage in a class discussion by responding in detail to the following three questions:

1. Discuss the message of this video in detail including:

plant vs. animal consumption

food pyramid

locavore

history of our food in the U.S.

his advice on action

    2. What is your reaction to this video?

    3. In your opinion, what should we do to improve this health crisis?

link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YkNkscBEp0

a) Is lactase production regulated pre- or post-transcription?

b) How is lactase persistence an example of gene expression?

Please go into detail about these processis.

1. Identify if the statement is about population parameter or a sample statistic and explain your answer. If it is about a parameter identify the population, and if it is about a sample identify the population and the sample.

A) 33% of all of the teams in the Basketball League are based in United States.

B) A survey of 300 butchers found that the average butcher uses 1000 lbs. of salt each year.

C) After taking measurements from 25,369 people, the Center for Disease Control stated that the average American man weighs 188.2 lbs., and is 6.1” tall.

D)Mrs. Smithy takes her class on a biology field trip, on the day of the field trip only 75% of the class had brought their permission slip.

2.For each of the variables below (given in the form of a survey question), answer the following questions. What level of measurement would be used to measure the variable? Is the variable quantitative or categorical? If the variable is quantitative, is it discrete or continuous?

A) What is your annual income?

B) What is your job/profession/occupation?

C) How thirsty are you right now, on a scale from 1 to 8 (with 1 being not thirsty at all and 5 being thirsty)?

D) What is your height?

E)Have you ever played Monopoly?

1. Define problem recognition and use an example to explain its role in agenda setting.

2.   Explain 2 reasons a state will be more “receptive” to action on environmental issues?

3. What happens to policies during policy formulation/legitimation?

4. Identify and explain 2 reasons that the 1970s produced the largest number of new environmental laws in US history.

5. How does party polarization make it more difficult to pass new environmental in Congress today?