Equipment was purchased at the beginning of 2009 for $204,000. At the time of its purchase, the equipment was estimated to have a useful life of six years and a residual value of $24,000. The equipment was depreciated using the straight-line method of depreciation through 2011. At the beginning of 2012, the estimate of useful life was revised to a total life of eight years and the expected residual value was changed to $15,000. The amount to be recorded for depreciation for 2012, reflecting these changes in estimates, is

Select one:

a. $22,800.

b. $23,625.

c. $19,800.

d.
$12,375.

It is January 2nd and senior management of Chester meets to determine their investment plan for the year. They decide to fully fund a plant and equipment purchase by issuing $10,000,000 in bonds. Assume the bonds are issued at face value and leverage changes to 2.7. Which of the following statements are true? Select all that apply.
Select: 3
Chester’s long-term debt will rise by $9,000,000
The total investment for Chester will be $211,673,239
Total liabilities will be $138,405,597
Working capital will remain the same at $15,274,216
Total Assets will rise to $224,822,631

⦁   What is the interpretation of the value of the mean taken over a dichotomous variable, such as gender (where the value assigned to women in the sample is 1 and the value assigned to men in the sample is 0)?
⦁   Which of the following statistics are not sensitive to changes in a small number of values within the distribution: mean, median, range, interquartile range, variance?
⦁   Intuitively, what is the standard deviation measuring in terms of characterizing the spread of the distribution?
⦁   Under what circumstances is it more useful to apply the skewness ratio formula instead of the skewness formula?

1. You are assisting Sarah with her breastfeeding, when she tells you she is not sure how she should hold the baby when she is breastfeeding.

She also asks how long to feed the baby on one breast before she changes breast.

She wants to know how she will know if the baby is getting enough to eat since she can’t measure the amount of milk the baby is getting.

      What will you teach Sarah to assist her?

1. What complicating factors can affect urinary incontinence?

2. Discuss why it is important to support the patient with a toileting schedule and promote their hydration.

3. Why is it important to give peri-care, provide garment and linen changes frequently to patients who are incontinent of urine/feces?

4. How can the Personal Support Worker possibly prevent this for the patient and help promote fecal and urinary continence?

5. What types of treatments are sometimes used for individuals experiencing constipation?

Q.6 As new regulation bans smoking in many areas, the demand for cigarettes has decreased. Now people spend their money on other products (denote as Y). Draw the graphs of the market and representative firm for cigarettes and for the market Y.

a. Show the initial long-run equilibrium in both sectors and in a representative firm in each sector on the graph.

b. Show what happens when demand changes in both sectors and representative firms.

c. Show the long-run equilibrium in both sectors.

A person who went to the gym and after 2 hours for his training, discovered that he lost 2 kilograms.

Why and how did you lose the 2 kilograms?
What happened to your plasma [sodium] and why?
What changes will occur, both in your behavior and kidney function, that will regain weight? What are the hormonal and cellular mechanisms by which your behavior and kidney function change? What is your serum [sodium] when you have finally regained weight and why?

Assume that you are attending a meeting of the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee (FOMC). There is great concern among the members that the U.S. economy is in a recessionary trend, while others believe that the U.S. economy is booming. Based on your reading, write a brief report to summarize your suggestions on how to adjust the current monetary policies. In your discussion, please specify the available tools that the Fed could use and how these policy changes affect your personal life and investment decisions.