Do you believe that emotions are universal? Why or why not? Provide evidence and detail from your readings/research to support your answer.

Imagine you are selected as a contestant on The Price is Right. The host, Bob Barker, shows you three boxes with marbles in them. Box #1 contains 6 red, 2 white and 2 blue marbles. Box #2 contains 2 red, 5 white and 3 blue marbles. Lastly, Box #3 contains 5 red, 2 white and 3 blue marbles. One of Bob's assistants will pick marbles from one of the boxes after they are hidden behind a curtain. If you correctly guess which box the marbles were picked from, you win a brand new car!

c. Suppose one red, one white, and one blue marble are selected, without replacement. Calculate the likelihood of the sample if they are selected from Box 1, 2 and 3.

P(sample | Box 1) =  ,     P(sample | Box 2) =  ,     P(sample | Box 3) =  .

Which box should you pick to maximize your chance of winning a car? (select more than one if there are ties)
Box 1
Box 2
Box 3

1. What is the primary goal of management? What are the primary tasks of a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and others in finance function of an organization?

2. Name and explain three tricks that management can play to manage earnings. Explain how using financial ratios can help spot these tricks.

3. Why is it important to analyze profitability, specifically focusing on return on investment? Invoke the breakdown of ROI in thinking about your response.

Sociology:

Imagine that you are a reader of a newspaper that has a section that allows ‘letters to the editor.’ (This is where readers are able to write and submit a short article arguing for some point of view). Three such hypothetical letters are below. Imagine that you are writing a response to these letters. Write a response in which you use your social psychology knowledge to argue against the letter writer.

(1) I am writing to discuss the recent incident in which 12 teenagers were caught smoking marijuana at a party. These kids seem to be blaming it on everything but themselves: ‘Peer pressure’ is their latest excuse – as if other people could cause people to engage in illegal activities! I am appalled at this behavior – these kids should be thrown in jail to be taught a lesson. This just confirms my beliefs that teenagers are nothing but trouble. Why can’t people behave like moral human beings? What has happened to personal responsibility in this country? I’ve never been in trouble with the law (other than one time I was caught speeding – but that was different – I was late for a very important meeting and I had no choice!). This generation simply doesn’t care about what’s right or wrong anymore. -Marie Lamont

1a. How did the electrolyte properties of NaCl solution compare as you added more salt to the water? Explain.

1b. How do ionic vs. covalent solutions compare as electrolytes? Give a possible chemical explanation for this comparison.

1c. Show equation(s) for the dissolution of salt vs. sugar to explain (at a molecular level) the reason behind your answer to #1. (Write two chemical equations with proper state symbols.)

1d. Is Acetone, C3H6O, polar, non-polar or dipolar?

1e. What is the dominant intermolecular force of Acetone, C3H6O?

1f. What is the dominant intermolecular force of Methyl alcohol, CH3OH?

Explain at what point a person is considered "under arrest." Explain the difference between a stop and an arrest. Why might states authorize probable cause arrests for certain unwitnessed misdemeanors? How much force can be used by an officer when executing an arrest? How is it determined? Can you think of any times when you heard about "excessive use of force" and if so, how do you think the actions of a few influenced the perceptions of many regarding the police??

Use a calculator to create a scattergram and give the keystrokes.

Find the correlation coefficient give the formula, using a calculator.

Give the calculator keystrokes used when finding the equation and the correlation
coefficient.

The following is about data on disk drives.

a) Sketch the scattergram.
b) Write down the equation that predicts Price from Capacity.
c) Give the correlation coefficient and state what it represents/means.
d) What is the slope estimate, b1.
e) What does it mean, in this context?
f) What is the intercept, b0.
g) What does it mean, in this context? Is it meaningful?
h) What would you predict for the price of a 20 TB drive?

Please paraphrase this paragraph into a short summary..

Good philosophical thinking takes time. Progress in good critical thinking is often very slow. The process of critical thinking can’t be called successful if it efficiently maximizes its inputs and outputs in the shortest measure of time: We do not produce thoughts in the mind like widgets in a factory. The reason for this is because good critical think- ing often needs to uncover that which subtle, hard to discern at first, and easy to overlook. I define subtlety as ‘a small difference or a delicate detail which takes on greater importance the more it is contemplated.’ As a demonstration, think of how many ways you can utter the word ‘Yes’, and mean something different every time. This also underlines the importance of precision, as a good thinking habit. As another example: Think of how the colour planes in a painting by Piet Mondrian, such as his ‘Composition with Yellow, Blue, and Red’ have squares of white framed by black lines, but none of the white squares are exactly the same shade of white. You won’t notice this if you look at the painting for only a few seconds, or if you view a photo of the painting on your computer screen, and your monitor’s resolution isn’t precise enough to render the subtle differences. But it is the job of reason to uncover those subtleties and lay them out to be examined directly. And the search for those subtleties cannot be rushed.

Though the extent of its long-term impact is still unclear, it is increasingly believed by experts that the COVID-19 pandemic will change the world in a number of important ways. With respect to business and capitalism, COVID-19 poses a number of unique challenges that can already be observed. Based on this, please answer the following questions:

a. What assumptions of capitalism has COVID-19 fundamentally challenged? Pick any three assumptions of capitalism discussed in the course and explain how they are challenged by COVID-19. Use examples where possible. (9 points)

b. How are the debates around CSR, shareholders/stakeholder, short-term/long-term, and corporate power reflected in the COVID-19 pandemic? Pick any two debates discussed in the course and describe in detail how they are relevant to COVID-19. Use examples where possible. (8 points)

c. How will COVID-19 change business and capitalism? In this course we have discussed many of the key events in the recent history of capitalism (stock market crash of 1929, World War 2, OPEC oil shocks, financial crisis of 2008). How do you believe COVID-19 will change capitalism? What will change? What will stay the same? Why? Use examples where possible. (10 points)

+ (3 points for clarity of writing)