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The function f is defined for positive y and all x by f(x,y) = x2 lny−y lny. Find the critical (or stationary) points of f and determine whether each critical point is a local maximum, local minimum or saddle point.

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A firm is the only producer of a particular good. The firm’s marginal revenue function is MR = 9−q, where q denotes the quantity of the good produced by the firm. The firm’s fixed costs are 12 and its average variable cost function is 1 + q/2. Find an expression for the firm’s profit function, Π(q). Find the value of the production, q, which maximises the firm’s profit, and hence calculate the firm’s maximum profit.
2. Using the method of row operations, solve the following system of linear equations to find x, y and z. 3x + y + 3z + 22 = x + 2y−2z + 150, x + y + 73 = 2x−2y + 2z + 44, x−2y + z + 102 = x−y + 130.
3. The function f is defined for positive y and all x by f(x,y) = x2 lny−y lny. Find the critical (or stationary) points of f and determine whether each critical point is a local maximum, local minimum or saddle point.
4. Two functions W(x,y) and U(x,y) are connected by the equation
W(x,y) = ex−4yU(x,y).
Find the partial derivatives
∂W ∂x
,
∂W ∂y
and
∂2W ∂x2
,
in terms of U and its partial derivatives. If W satisfies ∂W ∂y = ∂2W ∂x2 −2
∂W ∂x −3W, show that the function U then satisfies the equation
∂U ∂y
=
∂2U ∂x2
.

MT105a Mathematics 1 2016 Mock 5. (a) Determine the integralZ x−1dx (1 + lnx)lnx . (b) An arithmetic progression is such that its second term is 7 and its thirteenth term is ten times its first term. Determine the first term and the common difference.
6. An investor saves money in a bank account paying interest at a fixed rate of 100r%, where the interest is paid once per year, at the end of the year. She deposits an amount D at the beginning of each of the next N years. Show that she will then have saved an amount equal to D r(1 + r)N −1just after the last of these deposits.

What is the relationship between your companies and their respective employees and investors? How do these relationships affect financial performance?

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Compile the information from all the papers attached. Then answer the following questions below.

What is the relationship between your companies and their respective employees and investors? How do these relationships affect financial performance?
Are there any issues outstanding for your companies? How do these issues affect the overall financial viability of your companies?
Compare and contrast your two companies using the financial statements for the two firms and the accumulated data.
Justify if you were going to make an investment in one of the two companies, which one would you select? Why?
Prepare a comprehensive final report that summarizes your research and analysis of the two companies you selected for your Final Project over all weeks of this course.

List three different traits or characteristics that you find as fundamental to have as an educator of ELL students and explain why you feel these traits are so important.

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Goal: The purpose of this assessment is to create an advocacy and professional growth action plan. What is your plan on how to become that kind of educator?
• How can you advocate for ELL students, both within schools and as citizens outside of educational contexts?
Product: in essay format, discuss three advocacy principles that you see as important for educating English Language Learners, and how to learn more information about each of them.
• Include at least three different traits or characteristics that you find as fundamental to have as an educator of ELL students.
• Create a set of steps within your possible plan on how to become an ELL educator that adopts these traits.
Directions:
1. List and describe at least three principles for advocating for English Language Learners, and a reflection on why each principle is important.
2. List three different traits or characteristics that you find as fundamental to have as an educator of ELL students and explain why you feel these traits are so important. How do these traits connect to the three principles you list?
3. Steps within a possible plan to adopt and demonstrate these traits.

What motivates you professionally? Are you one who is motivated by perks and other incentives or do you have an inner drive to succeed? What is your proudest accomplishment so far this year and what motivated you to achieve it?

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Motivation is critical within every organization and every facet of life. In business, it involves every sub-division, it affects productivity, it aids in the setting and achievement of goals, it improves relationships, and it helps to build stability. Outside of business, motivation is the level of intensity in how we do things. Motivation can be either intrinsic or extrinsic. Either way, it determines the drive that you have towards attaining a particular goal.

What motivates you professionally? Are you one who is motivated by perks and other incentives or do you have an inner drive to succeed? What is your proudest accomplishment so far this year and what motivated you to achieve it?

Identify a relevant research topic and question. (Research shows that the use of technology has adversely affects the socialization of children). Create an annotated bibliography that you plan to use in your research paper that includes eight to ten appropriate, credible sources.

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  1. Identify a relevant research topic and question. (Research shows that the use of technology has adversely affects the socialization of children.)
  2. Perform preliminary research.
  3. Develop an arguable, research-based thesis statement.
  4. Devise strategies for finding useful sources in an online or physical library.
  5. Evaluate the credibility and relevance of a source to the argument.
  6. Determine whether the use of a specific source helps support the argument.
  7. Create a properly formatted annotated bibliography that summarizes a source and explains why the source is credible and relevant for the chosen thesis statement.

What you’ll do and submit:

  1. Compose an appropriate, arguable thesis statement that you plan to use in your research paper that previews two to four main points.
  2. Create an annotated bibliography that you plan to use in your research paper that includes eight to ten appropriate, credible sources.

The first stages of the research writing process involve topic selection, formulation of a research question, preliminary research, and the development of a working thesis statement. Now you will begin identifying and evaluating sources to determine how effectively they can support your argument. If needed, the “Topic Ideas” web link below can be used for selecting your research topic.

For this task, you will create an annotated bibliography by finding 8-10 sources for your research paper, listing the sources in APA-formatted references, and providing an annotation for each source. Each annotation should offer a summary of the source, an evaluation of its author’s or publisher’s credibility, and an assessment of its relevance to your topic.

Develop a risk assessment for a serious workplace hazard with which you are familiar, or use Addendum D to Chapter 11 (pp. 202-206) to help you select a hazard.

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Following steps 1-11 of the Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment Guide in the course textbook (pp. 171-174), develop a risk assessment for a serious workplace hazard with which you are familiar, or use Addendum D to Chapter 11 (pp. 202-206) to help you select a hazard. Evaluate the hazard and its associated risks, and then complete the Hazard Analysis and Risk Analysis Project form (click here to access this form). To complete the Initial Risk Assessment and Post Control Risk Assessment sections, use the following codes based on the Risk Assessment Matrix in Table 11.10 (p. 180) of the textbook:
SEVERITY:
1 – Catastrophic
2 – Critical
3 – Marginal
4 – Negligible

PROBABILITY (Likelihood of Occurrence):
A – Frequent
B – Probable
C – Occasional
D – Remote
E – Improbable

RISK CODE:
H – High
S – Serious
M – Medium
L – Low

All sections of the form must be completed. Note that the “Post Control Risk Assessment Measures” section reflects the risk assessment AFTER applying the additional control measures.

In a separate document of at least one page, explain the reasoning behind how you filled out each section of the form. How would the control measures affect the assessment?

Select a risk assessment matrix

  1. Establish the analysis parameters
  2. Identify he hazards
  3. Consider the failure modes
  4. Determine the frequency and the duration of exposure
  5. Asses the severity of the consequences
  6. Determine occurrence probability
  7. define the initial risk
  8. Risk prioritization
  9. Select and implement risk and control methods
  10. Asses the residual risk

 

If you could enter either the value segment or the premium segment of the wine industry, which one would you choose? Why? What insights can you provide about the threat of buyers in the premium wine industry?

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  1.  If you could enter either the value segment or the premium segment of the wine industry, which one would you choose? Why?

2.What insights can you provide about the threat of buyers in the premium wine industry?

3.If Passalacqua were to purchase the East Side Building as offered and sell 2000 cases per year, what will be the payback period? Make reasonable assumptions to calculate.

 

 

Choose a current injustice (local or global) that you would be willing to commit an act of civic engagement or protest for. Briefly summarize the Injustice, then compare two ways your chosen Injustice is similar to one of the Injustices presented in the films we screened

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Using the articles from the Reading Packets, and considering the films we screened in class, what injustice, locally or Globally, would you commit an act of CIVIC ENGAGMENT or PROTEST FOR?
In your answer consider, and offer answers to these questions: Why this injustice? What is your connection to it or why does it touch you? What would your act of Protest be? Would you choose an act of violence or non-violence? Why? Where would you commit this act? Who else might be join you? What outcome would you be satisfied with? Refer to the readings and films to support your position.
4 Easy Steps:

1) Choose a current injustice (local or global) that you would be willing to commit an act of civic engagement or protest for,

2) Briefly summarize the Injustice, then

3) Compare TWO WAYS your chosen Injustice is SIMILAR to one of the Injustices presented in the films we screened. Then,

4) Compare TWO WAYS your Injustice is DIFFERENT from one of the Injustices presented in the films we screened. QUESTION #2 (at least 750 words) Using the 8 Stages of A Social Movement use TWO films and detail how they show these.

Find a US cultural artifact that relates to the topic in readings from chapter 8, Race, Ethnic Groups and Racism. Describe how your cultural artifact symbolizes the readings for Lauer and Laurer (2019)

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Find a US cultural artifact that relates to the topic in readings from chapter 8, Race, Ethnic Groups and Racism. Describe how your cultural artifact symbolizes the readings for Lauer and Laurer (2019) chapter 8 (attached). Relate the artifact to the reading from this chapter by quoting the reading at least one time.

Examples of cultural artifacts can be ordinary objects, such as a piece of clothing, a toy, or a food item. Other examples include an advertisement from a magazine, a commercial on TV or radio, a TV show or movie, a discussion you overheard between two people, a passage from a book, a photograph, a comic or cartoon. Basically, it is anything that can give me a glimpse of the American culture.

Find a character in a film who is experiencing an identity crisis. In a 200-300 word response, show how this quest for identity drives the plot of the film. Discuss how and why the character struggles with identity and sense of belonging

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“This story of the loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.” — Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination

The quest for identity or suffering an identity crisis or identity loss are recurring patterns of plot in literature, tv shows, and movies. This recurring pattern is called an archetype. You will learn more about archetypes in Unit 6. This is a popular archetype because it is extremely relatable as we all want to know who we are and what makes us unique. We would like to have some direction in our life and know where we are going. We want the answers to the questions…

“Who am I?” “Where do I fit in?” “Will other people accept me?”

Your sense of identity has to do with who you think you are and how you perceive yourself. It has to do with your sense of self worth and self esteem. Discovering and developing our personal and cultural identity means we need to recognize…

1. Relationships and cultural contexts

2. Personal values and choice

3. Personal strengths and abilities

However, there are often times in life where we don’t see our value or understand where we fit in. This is called an identity crisis. An identity crisis is “a period of uncertainty and confusion in which a person’s sense of identity becomes insecure, typically due to a change in their expected aims or role in society.” So, in order to regain our self worth, we undergo a quest for identity and self-discovery. Characters in films often go through an identity crisis when they experience a trauma or change in their lives. They struggle to regain a sense of themselves and so run the gamut of a number of experiences as they attempt to come to terms with who they are. This process is often the plot of an entire movie.

Task:

Find a character in a film who is experiencing an identity crisis. In a 200-300 word response, show how this quest for identity drives the plot of the film. Discuss how and why the character struggles with identity and sense of belonging. What happened to make the character question themselves? Discuss how that character is able to overcome or not, this loss of identity on the road to self-discovery. Is the crisis resolved in the movie? Is the resolution realistic?