Betsy Birdsong, an interior designer, has made plans to definitely retire in three years. She has begun to downsize her business and is moving out of the 2,000 square foot commercial condominium she owns in a prestigious business park. Betsy does not wish to sell at this time, so she has decided to offer the condominium as a lease-purchase option. While she hasn't decided on a purchase price, she is adamant about the lease term:   a three-year lease with a two-year option (for the first two years only).  

What is your opinion as to why she would require such a lease term?

Suppose you pick 50 clovers from the grass in Washington square park. Some clovers are four-leaf clovers but most have only three leaves. Suppose clovers develop their leaves inde- pendently of each other and there is some probability p that they will develop into a four-leaf clover.

Calculate the probability that you get two or fewer four-leaf clovers, for each of p = 0.1, 0.05, 0.01. For each value of p, do the calculation in three ways: the exact calculation, the Poisson ap- proximation, and the Normal approximation (with the histogram correction.) Comment on your results – which approximation is better when?

10.1Document for Analysis: Poor Persuasive Request Inviting Speaker to Discuss Seven Cardinal Sins in Food Service

(L.O. 1–3)

The following letter from a program chair strives to persuade a well-known chef to make a presentation before a local restaurant association. But the letter is not very persuasive. How could this message be more persuasive? What reader benefits could it offer? What arguments could be made to overcome resistance? How should a persuasive message conclude?

Your Task Analyze the following invitation and list its weaknesses, and write a revision.

Current date

Ms. Danielle Watkins

The Beverly Hills Hotel

9641 Sunset Boulevard

Beverly Hills, CA 90210

Dear Ms. Watkins:

We know you are a very busy hospitality professional as chef at the Beverly Hills Hotel, but we would like you to make a presentation to the San Francisco chapter of the National Restaurant Association. I was asked to write you since I am program chair.

I heard that you made a really good presentation at your local chapter in Los Angeles recently. I think you gave a talk called “Avoiding the Seven Cardinal Sins in Food Service” or something like that. Whatever it was, I'm sure we would like to hear the same or a similar presentation. All restaurant operators are interested in doing what we can to avoid potential problems involving discrimination, safety at work, how we hire people, etc. As you well know, operating a fast-paced restaurant is frustrating—even on a good day. We are all in a gigantic rush from opening the door early in the morning to shutting it again after the last customer has gone. It's a rat race and easy to fall into the trap with food service faults that push a big operation into trouble.

Enclosed please find a list of questions that our members listed. We would like you to talk in the neighborhood of 45 minutes. Our June 10 meeting will be in the Oak Room of the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco and dinner begins at 7 p.m.

How can we get you to come to San Francisco? We can only offer you an honorarium of $200, but we would pay for any travel expenses. You can expect a large crowd of restaurateurs who are known for hooting and hollering when they hear good stuff! As you can see, we are a rather informal group. Hope you can join us!

Sincerely,

Emily rows six miles downstream in 1 hour and her friend Ashley, rowing 1 mile per hour faster, completes the return trip in 2 hours.

If Emily and Ash ley were rowing separately, who would complete their trip first and by how long? Round to the nearest hundredth, if necessary.

speed of the current:2mph.

rowing speed of Emily.

rowing speed of Ashley.

In each of the following situations, identify the independent variable and dependent variable.
Determine whether the growth is linear or exponential and explain why by the definition of linear and
exponential growth (Do not present the table)
a) The price of gasoline has been rising 2% per month.
b) The total cost of a taxi ride increases by $ 5 per 2 miles.
c) The population of a bacteria is double every 20 hours.

9. A flowering plant species grows on the mainland near the coast. One summer, a tropical storm
blows seeds from this population several hundred miles out to sea. Some of the seeds land on an
island, where they form a new population. Describe two ways that speciation could occur in this
situation. Include the concepts of genetic drift, gene pool, reproductive isolation, and selection in your
description.