Marlise Muñoz, a married mother of one, was found unconscious by her husband due to a blood clot in her lung. After being rushed to the hospital, she was declared brain-dead and discovered to have been 14 weeks pregnant. The family viewed her as having died, since she was brain-dead, and demanded that she be removed from life support. State law prohibited the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment from a pregnant woman, so the hospital refused the family’s request, insisting that Marlise remain on life support for 4 months until the fetus had some possibility of surviving outside the womb. Over the course of the ensuing months, the unborn fetus was determined to be nonviable due to hydrocephalus, a possible heart problem, and structural defects in the extremities. Nonetheless, the hospital persisted in its refusal until the family successfully obtained a court order requiring the hospital to remove Marlise from mechanical ventilation. Note: This is based upon a real case that received national attention.

Question 1: How would you defend the hospital’s decision to keep Marlise on a ventilator in this scenario on the basis of the wedge principle?

Question 2: How could the ethical principle of beneficence be used to critique the hospital’s decision to keep Marlise on a ventilator in this scenario?

In 2017, Juanita is married and files a joint tax return with her husband. What is her tentative minimum tax in each of the following alternative circumstances? (Input all values as positive. Leave no answer blank. Enter zero if applicable.)

a. Her AMT base is $112,000, all ordinary income.

b. Her AMT base is $325,000, all ordinary income.

c. Her AMT base is $112,000, which includes $16,700 of qualified dividends.

d. Her AMT base is $325,000, which includes $16,700 of qualified dividends.

In 2017, Juanita is married and files a joint tax return with her husband. What is her tentative minimum tax in each of the following alternative circumstances? (Input all values as positive. Leave no answer blank. Enter zero if applicable.)

a. Her AMT base is $150,000, all ordinary income.

b. Her AMT base is $255,000, all ordinary income.

c. Her AMT base is $150,000, which includes $33,500 of qualified dividends.

d. Her AMT base is $255,000, which includes $33,500 of qualified dividends.

Phenylketonuria is a recessively inherited disease. A woman and her husband do NOT have the disease yet their daughter has the disease. If the couple has a total of 3 children how likely is it: that all 3 children will have the disease? and that at least one child will NOT have the disease? (PLEASE INCLUDE LEGENDS, PUNNET SQUARES and show work)

A husband and wife, Ed and Rina, share a digital music player that has a feature that randomly selects which song to play. A total of 3476 songs have been loaded into the player, some by Ed and the rest by Rina. They are interested in determining whether they have each loaded different proportions of songs into the player. Suppose that when the player was in the random-selection mode, 38 of the first 58 songs selected were songs loaded by Rina. Let p denote the proportion of songs that were loaded by Rina.

(a) State the null and alternative hypotheses to be tested. How strong is the evidence that Ed and Rina have each loaded a different proportion of songs into the player? Make sure to check the conditions for the use of this test. (Round your test statistic to two decimal places and your P-value to three decimal places. Assume a 95% confidence level.)

z = 2.36

P-value = 0.018

Conclusion: There is strong evidence that the proportion of songs downloaded by Ed and Rina differs from 0.5.

(b) Are the conditions for the use of the large sample confidence interval met? Yes, the conditions are met.

If so, estimate with 95% confidence the proportion of songs that were loaded by Rina. Round your answers to 3 decimal places. _____ to ________

1. Sandra “has it all”: a handsome and successful husband, a beautiful home in the city, and healthy gorgeous twin girls, aged 5. Most importantly, she is a busy venture capitalist who invests in start up businesses. However, she is also the primary caregiver to her invalid father who refuses to move into a nursing home and lives in his own apartment across town. She is what we call a member of ‘the sandwich generation’ and needs help managing everything.

Sandra decides to advertise and interview for three different positions: 1) a personal caregiver for her father; 2) a nanny for her daughters; and 3) a personal assistant for herself. Her father is a lovely man but holds outdated opinions on a number of issues, including, sadly, Japanese, Germans and Italians. He has never forgiven them for what happened in World War Two. He wouldn’t tolerate anyone of those backgrounds being his caregiver. Sandra would like her daughters to learn Mandarin and so wants to only hire someone Chinese as her daughters’ nanny to speak to them entirely in proper and correct Mandarin. Lastly, her husband is a very jealous man and would not tolerate her having a male assistant so she must only hire a woman for that job.

What Human Rights Code issues must Sandra be aware of in both advertising and interviewing for these positions? Will she be able to hire who she wishes or will there be any HRC violations in any or all of these situations? Refer to case and statute law where appropriate in support.

Question 112.56 pts

Which of the following statements is false?

Taxes paid by a husband on a home owned by his wife are not deductible by the husband on the husband's separate tax return.

Special assessments paid to improve streets, sidewalks, and other like improvements are not deductible as real estate taxes even though they are assessed by a county or municipality for the public welfare.

If a taxpayer's mortgage requires his real estate taxes to be "escrowed," or included in the taxpayer's mortgage payment, the taxes are deductible and deemed paid when the taxpayer pays his mortgage payment.

Annual assessments paid to homeowner associations to maintain common areas are not deductible as real estate taxes.

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Question 122.56 pts

Which of the following statements is true?

A taxpayer may not deduct a late charge or penalty assessed by a lender when the fee or penalty is for specific services performed by the lender.

Prepayment penalties charged by a lender for paying off a mortgage earlier than its stated term are not deductible as home mortgage interest.

Losses to a taxpayer's residence due to fire, theft, and other casualty are not deductible unless the home is used for business purposes.

Losses to a taxpayer's residence resulting from deterioration over a period of time are deductible as casualty losses subject to certain dollar limitations.

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Question 132.56 pts

Which of the following is NOT a requirement to deduct a casualty loss on a taxpayer's residence?

The portion of the loss that is deducted must be uninsured (policy deductible) or unreimbursed by the insurance company.

For some years, only net losses exceeding ten percent of the taxpayer's adjusted gross income are tax deductible.

For tax years after 2018, in addition to the 10% adjusted gross income limitation, the first $500.00 of each casualty loss event is not allowed as a deduction similar to a "deductible" clause in an insurance policy.

For some years, generally, for a loss to be deductible as a casualty, the loss must result from a sudden unexpected event except for losses due to corrosive drywall.

A taxpayer, in 2018, may claim a personal casualty loss not attributable to federally declared disasters if it is to offset a personal casualty gain.

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Question 142.56 pts

Kate Harris had adjusted gross income in 2018 of $20,000. The following information pertains to her beach house which was destroyed by a hurricane in a federally declared disaster: Cost basis $90,000; value before the casualty $100,000; value after the hurricane $5,000; insurance recovery $85,000. Her city apartment was also broken into and a necklace with a cost of $3,000 and a value of $5,000 was stolen. She recovered $5,000 form the insurance company. What is her casualty loss deduction for 2018?

$900

$4,900

$5,000

$5,900

$7,900

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Question 152.56 pts

Karen Kurtz purchased a home for $380,000 during 2009, borrowing $300,000 of the purchase price, which was secured by a 20-year mortgage. In 2018, when the home was worth $425,000 and the balance of the first mortgage was $240,000, Karen obtained a second mortgage on the home in the amount of $130,000, using the proceeds to purchase a car and to pay off personal loans. For 2018, what amount of karen's $370,000 of mortgage debt will qualify for "qualified residence indebtedness"?

$240,000

$340,000

$370,000

$100,000

None of the above.

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We think of the “traditional family” as husband, wife, and two kids, with the wife staying home to raise the kids. Yet, this family pattern has not been the norm for most societies or for most of U.S. history. Why do we call this the traditional family? What benefits and costs are associated with this type of family?

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Assume that you construct a price weighted index of 30 stocks. The sum of the prices of these stocks is $2000. The divisor for this index is 30, and the value of this index is 100. Now assume that one of the 30 stocks, with an average price of $100, has a three-for-one stock split while the value of other stocks remains unchanged.

a) If you make no adjustments to the index, what will be the new value of the index?

b) What does the new divisor have to be to keep the value of the index unchanged at 100