Are these advertisements ethnocentric, stereotyping or appropriately using good market research - Toyota’s marketing campaign for its new Camry?  Explain

African-American- This commercial of a black man driving is centered on the theme “strut,” and features an image of a peacock and the entrance music of the wrestler John Cena.

Hispanic- A Latino man enjoys his driving experience so much that he dares to decline a call from his mother, a move that the target audience is meant to see as rebellious.

Asian-American- A father picks up his daughter from baseball practice, a casting decision made to suggest that the Camry brings out the affectionate side of Asian-American fathers.

Transcultural Mainstream’ A schoolboy, a young woman and a bespectacled man are each waiting for someone. Their counterparts are joyful and unworried as they drive with Queen playing.

To raise operating funds, North American Courier Corporation sold its building on January 1, 2021, to an insurance company for $540,000 and immediately leased the building back. The lease is for a 10-year period ending December 31, 2030, at which time ownership of the building will revert to North American Courier. The building has a carrying amount of $480,000 (original cost $1,160,000). The lease requires North American to make payments of $87,882 to the insurance company each December 31. The building had a total original useful life of 30 years with no residual value and is being depreciated on a straight-line basis. The lease has an implicit rate of 10%. (FV of $1, PV of $1, FVA of $1, PVA of $1, FVAD of $1 and PVAD of $1) (Use appropriate factor(s) from the tables provided.)
  
Required:
1. Prepare the appropriate entries for North American (a) on January 1, 2021, to record the transaction and (b) on December 31, 2021, to record necessary adjustments.
2. Show how North American’s December 31, 2021, balance sheet and income statement would reflect the sale-leaseback.

In January 2011, The Marist Poll published a report stating that 66% of adults nationally think licensed drivers should be required to retake their road test once they reach 65 years of age. It was also reported that interviews were conducted on 1,018 American adults, and that the margin of error was 3% using a 95% confidence level.


(a) We are 95% confident that 63% to 69% of American adults in this sample think licensed drivers should be required to retake their road test once they turn 65. 
True or false, why?

(b) We are 95% confident that 63% to 69% of American adults think licensed drivers should be required to retake their road test once they turn 65. 
True or false, why?

(c) If we take many random samples of 1018 American adults, and for each sample, calculated the percentage who think licensed drivers should be required to retake their road test once they turn 65. 95% of those sample percentages will be between 63% and 69%. True or false, why?

(d) The margin of error at a 99% confidence level would be higher than 3%. 
True or false, why?

The Marist Poll published a report stating that 66% of adults nationally think licensed drivers should be required to retake their road test once they reach 65 years of age. It was also reported that interviews were conducted on 1,018 American adults, and that the margin of error was 3% using a 95% confidence level.

Briefly explain your reasoning for the following true/false statements:

i. We are 95% confident that 63% to 69% of American adults in this sample think licensed drivers should be required to retake their road test once they turn 65.

FALSE

ii. We are 95% confident that 63% to 69% of American adults think licensed drivers should be required to retake their road test once they turn 65.

TRUE

iii. If we take many random samples of 1018 American adults, and for each sample, calculated the percentage who think licensed drivers should be required to retake their road test once they turn 65. 95% of those sample percentages will be between 63% and 69%.

TRUE

iv. The margin of error at a 99% confidence level would be higher than 3%.

TRUE

For each transaction below, enter its value and sign, and whether it belongs to the current or financial accounts. Compute the Current Account Balance, the Financial Account Balance, and indicate whether there is a Balance of Payment surplus or a Balance of Payments deficit (i.e. compute the Balance of Official Transactions).

a. The London Symphony Orchestra is hired to tour the United States. It is paid 100 British pounds, which the (American) tour organizer had in its bank account with a British Bank.

b. The United States Treasury pays interest on T-bills held by Black Rock, a British Bank, for $200. The bank holds the US dollars in a London account.

c. The Federal Reserve purchases $100 worth of euros from a French bank, paying in US dollars that the French bank holds on its balance sheet.

d. A Chinese holding company buys IMB, and American company, by acquiring its shares in the American stock market. The Chinese firm pays $400 to acquire IMB, and it pays with US dollars it had in its accounts.

e. The import of wool from Nepal to the United States for $100. The American importer pays for the wool in US dollars, which are then held in Nepal.

Suppose the airline industry consisted of only two​ firms: American and Texas Air Corp. Let the two firms have identical cost​ functions,

​C(q)=40q.

Assume that the demand curve for the industry is given by

P=130−Q

and that each firm expects the other to behave as a Cournot competitor.

Calculate the​ Cournot-Nash equilibrium for each​ firm, assuming that each chooses the output level that maximizes its profits when taking its​ rival's output as given. What are the profits of each​ firm? ​(For all of the​ following, enter a numeric response rounded to two decimal​ places.)

When​ competing, each firm will produce？units of output.

In​ turn, each firm will earn profit of $？.

What would be the equilibrium quantity if Texas Air had constant marginal and average costs of $25 and American had constant marginal and average costs of

​$40​?

If Texas Air had constant marginal and average costs of $25 and American had constant marginal and average costs of $40​,

American would produce ？units and Texas Air Corp. would produce ？units.

In​ turn, American's will earn profit of $？ and Texas Air Corp. will earn profit of $？.

1. What is the price of an American-style call option assuming a 4% annual risk-free rate, a strike price = $150, and 3 years to maturity.  In each year the price can either rise by a factor of 1.3 or fall by a factor of 0.9.  The current price of the underlying asset is $100 and it pays no dividends.
2. Why is the price in part a different than you would get from inputting a 10% drift and 20% volatility into the Black Scholes equation?
3. What would be the price of an American-style put option on the same stock with the same maturity as in part a above?
4. What is the price of an American-style call option assuming a 4% annual risk-free rate, a strike price = $150, and 3 years to maturity.  In each year the price can either rise by a factor of 1.3 or fall by a factor of 0.9.  The current price of the underlying asset is $100 and it pays no dividends.
5. Why is the price in part a different than you would get from inputting a 10% drift and 20% volatility into the Black Scholes equation?
6. What would be the price of an American-style put option on the same stock with the same maturity as in part a above?

Put your opinion in 3 paragraphs????
  
How has the situation changed since the beginning of 2017? (new President)

“We will have two simple rules when it comes to this massive rebuilding effort, buy American and hire American,” said President Donald J. Trump. In April 2017, President Trump signed an executive order promoting American industry and protecting it from unfair competition. With that being said, President Trump is taking action to enforce laws promoting American industry and targeting companies (such as India’s IT outsourcing Infosys) who routinely abuse the H-1B visa program by replacing American workers with lower paid foreign workers.

Another example of change since President Trump took office is that he started a trade war to destroy China’s economy. Fast-forward to 2018, he tweeted that—“Apple prices may increase because of the massive Tariffs we may be imposing on China. Start building new plants now.” In November 2018, President Trump he signed a new trade agreement with Mexico and Canada (US-Mexico-Canada Agreement aka USMCA) to replace NAFTA. With that being said, some of the specifications of the agreement requires that 40% of cars eventually be made in countries that pay autoworkers at least $16 an hour – that is, the US and Canada and not Mexico – to qualify for duty-free treatment under the trade pact. It also requires Mexico to pursue reforms of labor law to encourage independent unions.

(1) American ladybugs have an average adult length of 1 cm with a known standard deviation of 0.2 cm. The population of American ladybugs in Raleigh was around 1914000 last spring. Assume a normal distribution for the lengths of adult American ladybugs.

Your niece asks you what's the probability of a random ladybug in Raleigh being bigger than 1.5 cm. Is it appropriate to calculate this probability?

Select one: a. Yes.

b. No, because the population distribution is skewed.

c. No, because the sample size is less than 30.

d. No, because the empirical rule is violated.

(2)Regardless of your answer to the previous question, calculate this probability using a normal distribution. Report your answer to four decimal places.

(3)

Although it would be difficult in practice, assume we are able to randomly sample 20 American ladybugs. What's the sampling distribution of the sample mean of these ladybugs?

Select one:

a. A t-distribution with 19 degrees of freedom

b. The sampling distribution is unknown because relevant assumptions are violated.

c. A normal distribution with mean 1 and standard deviation 0.2.

d. A normal distribution with mean 1 and standard deviation 0.045.

(4) Calculate the probability of observing an average American ladybug length between 0.95 cm and 1.05 cm for a random sample of 20 ladybugs. Give your answer accurate to four decimal places. If you found assumptions to be violated in the previous question, answer this question as if the assumptions had not been violated.

1-If we are to have a truly egalitarian society, citizens must recognize the racist history of the United States and the social conditions that perpetuate contemporary inequalities. To do this, one must develop:

2-Why are poor women LESS likely to marry?

3-Which of the following is one of the basic principles of social stratification?

4-What is the relationship between the American Dream and the social class system by which the United States is stratified?