What are some common logical fallacies (section 3.9) that you have witnessed in your life? (at work/school, in conversation, TV, Internet, etc.)

They can be related to technology, try not to get overly political in nature. Avoid Ad Hominem arguments in discussion.

1. You work for a large technology company and have just devised the newest and latest mobile devise application (app). Using the methods described in the chapter for persuasion, describe how you would try to persuade people to purchase the new app.

Psychology

• Why did people want to move to the United States?
• How did the industrialization of the US help establish itself as a world power?
• How did the Industrialization of the US help change the class structure in the country?
• What advancements did it have in technology and labor?

Because of the persistent moral hazard problem, the demand curve tends to _________________ as health insurance companies face increasing financial risks associated with the costly but unforeseen healthcare overutilization of their insureds.  

Group of answer choices

- none of the choices listed here

- slope down

- slope up

- slope up and down

- slope flatly

Question 3

Suppose there is an increase in expected future income. Everything else held constant, this will change the ______ and the consumption function will _____.

Question 3 options:

Using excel spreadsheets only!

Malfoy buys a home down the street from Hagrid for $342,000 and puts 10% down.  He finances the rest at 4.3% for 30 years.  

He decides to refi after 11 years at 3.8%.  If he pays the original payment, how much does he save?

Use the following information to calculate the expected return and standard deviation of a portfolio that is 30 percent invested in 3 Doors, Inc., and 70 percent invested in Down Co.

Correlation .33

Please read case and answer the questions thank you.

Pandora is a music streaming service with over 250 million registered users and over 75million active listeners. Pandora has met with increasing success since its 2000 launch as bandwidth speeds have improved and as typical consumershave grown more used to the idea of streaming music online, but it took several attempts at striking the right balance between advertising, premiumsubscription plans, and how much of its services to provide for free. In 2009, the company launched its Pandora One service, offering no advertising, higher quality streams, and fewer usage limits, and quickly saw its revenuesgrow.Other online music streaming services such as Spotify, Beats Music, iTunesRadio, and Rdio all offer larger selections of music than Pandora does, andboth Spotify and Rdio also use a similar freemium business model. Pandorasets itself apart with its recommendation system and its reliance on the Music Genome Project. In mostrecommendation systems, your browsing and purchasing data is used togenerate selections you might like, such as consumer goods on Amazon or movies and TV shows on Netflix. These sites match your patterns to theirinternal databases to find the subset of other customers similar to you. If that subset of customers tends to like a product or a show that you haven’t seen before, it’ll be recommended to you. These systems tend to reward popularproducts and movies, because these items show up more often on mostcustomers’ lists.On Pandora, you type in a song or artist to create a radio station, and by giving a thumbs up or thumbs down to the tracks you hear (or by skipping tracks), you provide Pandora with valuable information on which tracks you like. That’swhere the Music Genome Project comes in. Pandora calls itself the “custodian” of the project, and is the sole developer and proprietor of the technology, though at one point it licensed the technology to other entities. With sufficientdata about your musical preferences, Pandora begins playing music thatfeatures similar attributes to tracks you’ve thumbed-up and avoids music withfeatures you’ve thumbed-down or skipped. In this way, Pandora is much less about finding popular selections that everybody else likes, and more aboutfinding selections that you specifically will like on their musical merits. Tim Westergren describes one of the guiding principles behind Pandora as finding a way to help the underdog in an industry where attention is concentratedamong a small number of hugely popular artists. Its recommendation system does an excellent job of this without compromising users’ listening experience. In side-by- side comparisons of online music streaming services,Pandora’s reputation is one of musical exploration – it’s the site to choose ifyou’re looking for new music and aren’t sure where to turn. And many peopleare choosing Pandora: in 2016, Pandora remains the clear leader in the U.S. music streaming market, with both the highest brand awareness and the highest monthly usage.

1.What sets Pandora’s recommendation system apart from other sites like Amazon and Netflix?

2.According to the video, how many stations does Pandora allow you to create?

3.What is the Music Genome Project? How is the musical “genome” mapped?

4.Why is Pandora a good example of the success of the “Long Tail” on the Web?

Selected 5 ports.

a) Calculate the mean, standard deviation, median, minimum, maximum values of gross weight of goods handled in selected ports by direction for the last 6 years. Interpret the results.

b) Draw the line graph and compare the gross weight of goods handled in selected ports (Interpret trends)

c) Draw bar charts for the last 6 year mean of weight of goods handled in selected ports. Interpret the graph.

d) Consider the 5 selected ports are your sample. Choose two years to calculate mean and standard deviation (Do not use excel function, calculte manually). Interpret your for the two years results.