Determine if there is sufficient evidence to conclude the average amount of births is over 5000 in the United States and territories at the 0.05 level of significance.

1. Clearly state a null and alternative hypothesis
2. Give the value of the test statistic n= 52
3. Report the P-Value
4. Clearly state your conclusion (Reject the Null or Fail to Reject the Null)
5. Explain what your conclusion means in context of the data.

2. For each, state whether the unemployment is structural, frictional, seasonal or cyclical.

a. As the United States becomes a more high-tech producer, labor-intensive factories no longer need as many workers

b. Unemployment rises as output in the economy slows.

c. Unemployment rate rises as the tourism months come to an end.

d. As it becomes more acceptable for mothers to work, more women enter the labor market looking for work. The unemployment rate rises.

e. The demand for workers in the southwest increases as more people search for work in the northeast.

QUESTION 14

1. The imposition of an import tariff by a large nation
   

QUESTION 15

1. The 1934 Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act

(2.1, problems 2, 7) In the following problems, the scenarios are vaguely stated. Form

these vague scenarios, identify a problem you would like to study. Which variables

affect the behavior you have identified in the problem identification? Which variables

are the most important? Remember, there are really no right answers.

(a) A retail store intends to construct a new parking lot. How should the lot be illuminated?

(b) The United States Food and Drug Administration is interested in knowing if a new drug is effective in the control of a certain disease in the population.

Recall the looser pay winner auction experiment done in class.

(a) Discuss how these experiments explain why the bidders changed their minds toward wanting to bid well above the value of the prize, even though they refused to do so at the begging.

(b) Discuss how the experiment explains why George Bush and many citizens changed their minds about a "preemptive" attack on Iraq.

(c) Also explain why England wanted to tax trade in the American colonies; which led to rebellion and the formation of the United States.

Canada is a small open economy, and our (by far) largest trading partner is the United States. Imagine that the US economy enters a significant recession due to COVID-19, but the Canadians do not get sick at all and everything works as usual in the Canadian economy. How would the US recession show in the Canadian economy? Use the IS-LM-FE model to explain what would happen to the Canadian real GDP and real interest rate and why. Discuss the effects of the US recession on the Canadian economy in the short run and in the long run.

please answer the following questions

1. Discuss the following properties of water and why they are significant: (a) transmission of light; (b) maximum density at 4o C; (c) solvent properties and (d) surface tension

2. Explain the importance of bacterial flocculation to the function of wastewater treatment systems.

3. Explain why the insecticide dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane (DDT) was banned in the United States in 1972.

4-. Understand the basic structure for a municipal drinking water treatment facility.  Define the components and explain how they improve drinking water quality.

Review "Gilead Signs Hepatitis C Pact to Cut Drug Cost for Poor." In this article, the authors describe how a hepatitis C drug will be offered to developing countries at a fraction of its price in the United States. Describe your personal opinion of Gilead’s actions, and then describe your economic opinion of Gilead’s actions. How might you advise the CEO of Gilead?

Article: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gilead-sciences-india/gilead-signs-hepatitis-c-pact-to-cut-drug-cost-for-poor-idUSKBN0HA0TT20140915

Explain the relationship between a firm’s short-run production function and its shortrun cost function. Focus on the marginal product of an input and the marginal cost of production.

b) A U.S. electronics firm is considering moving its production to a plant in Mexico. Its estimated production function is q=L 0.5 K 0. 5 . The U.S. factor prices are In Mexico, the wage is half that in the United States, but the firm faces the same cost of capital: ? and ? What are L and K What is the cost of producing units in both countries?

1. Formative evaluation strategies:

1. Focus on the whole event
2. Identify if an outcome has been met
3. Emphasize parts instead of the entirety
4. Are most useful in the end of the learning activity

2. “Health literacy” is operationally defined in the United States as:

1. “Being able to read and write at the 5^th grade level
2. Being able to accurately complete a health self-assessment questionnaire
3. Knowing how to access and use information to make health decisions
4. Knowing one’s right to obtain health care, such as through a visit to the emergency department