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How does the Fed control the money supply? Be sure to explain how they can expand or restrict the money supply. How does the banking system create money? List two to three pros and cons of the Federal Reserve Bank.

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Federal Reserve Bank

Monetary policy is largely determined by the Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) in the United States. For this discussion, let’s cordially debate the necessity of the Fed.

For your initial post address the following:

  • How does the Fed control the money supply? Be sure to explain how they can expand or restrict the money supply.
  • How does the banking system create money?
  • List two to three pros and cons of the Federal Reserve Bank.
  • What is your conclusion: is the Fed necessary? Support your opinion.

Response should be a minimum of 200 words. Assess the perspectives of several scholars. Support your response with at least one scholarly and/or credible resource. APA Format. Please cite all references.

What is Carroll saying about the nature of rhetorical analysis? How do the fundamentals of rhetorical analysis figure into your life, both as a student and as a citizen? Describe a pair of specific examples in which these concepts might play (or have played) a role in your participation in those areas.

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ENC1102: Discussion: Understanding Context and Research Reflection

Questions for Analysis

What is Carroll saying about the nature of rhetorical analysis? How do the fundamentals of rhetorical analysis figure into your life, both as a student and as a citizen? Describe a pair of specific examples in which these concepts might play (or have played) a role in your participation in those areas.

Using at least one citation from Carroll’s essay, comment on the role of context in framing contemporary arguments. Is there enough contextual background on news stories, speeches, advertisements, and other areas of rhetoric in today’s digital information culture? How does the Washington Post’s proposed feature of the “Knowledge Map” (noted in this Shan Wang article

Links to an external site.) enrich the contemporary news environment?

Finally, in the second half of your essay, explain to your classmates the general features of your research argument. Using the taxonomies of reflection in the previous section as a guide, answer the following questions in your final four paragraphs:

  • What did you learn about your topic that you didn’t already know or that was surprising to you?
  • What is an area that you would like to improve upon as a writer moving forward, and which aspect of your research argument are you most proud of?
  • Finally, how do you see the subject of your research argument changing over the course of the next ten years? Where will it be in a decade’s time?

Where applicable, feel free to use hyperlinks to connect your essay to a resource or two in support of your answers.

Examine whether Dummy’s conviction for marijuana possession should be overturned, because he was not read Miranda warnings before making a deal. Evaluates whether Stupido’s confession should have been suppressed, because his lawyer was not allowed to see him. Explain the validity of Dripster’s death sentence for shooting and paralyzing Innocent violates the Eighth Amendment.

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The Supreme Court Opinion Final Paper

Prior to beginning your written assignment, read the Excessive Bail

Links to an external site. article and review all previous weeks’ materials concerning the 4th Amendment, due process, the right to remain silent, the right to counsel, cruel and unusual punishment and capital punishment.

In the state of Denial, the Capital City Police have been watching gang activity between two local gangs, the Drips and the Scruds. The Scruds are mad at the Drips because they believe that the Drips have been encroaching on the Scruds’ territory and selling drugs in the Scruds’ neighborhood. Members of the gangs take the first letter of the gang’s affiliation for their “gang name.” For example, the leader of the Drips is assumed the name Dripster, while the leader of the Scrips took on the name Stupido. Officers Do-Right and Justice have been assigned to the case and have been following members of both gangs closely over the past several weeks.

Dripster (the leader of the Drips) has been driving around in a Black Chevrolet Blazer that is registered to his girlfriend. Do-Right and Justice have placed a tracking device on the vehicle so that they can follow the gang leader at a safe distance without him noticing them. Using the tracking device, they have followed him to a party being held at a house owned by the girlfriend of a fellow Drip, Dufus.

The officers decide to use a new device that they have obtained from the police department called the Bloodhound, which can sniff out certain smells from a distance. Using the Bloodhound, the officers have determined that inside the house are the following substances: marijuana, creatine (which is commonly used to cut cocaine), and lye (which can be used in making methamphetamine). Based upon the information they have obtained from the Bloodhound, they call a magistrate and obtain a search warrant for Dufus’ house.

After backup arrives, Officers Do-Right and Justice lead the way to the house, where they break through the front door of the house without first knocking and announcing their presence. Inside the house, they find Dripster sitting at the kitchen table in front of a scale and a white powdery substance, which is later determined to be to be cocaine. They also find Dufus in a back room surrounded by boxes of electronics and a pile of cash that they later determine to be $50,000. With Dufus are two low-level Drips, Dummy and Duncecap, who are armed with automatic assault rifles and loaded handguns.

When the officers rush into the room where Dufus, Dummy, and Duncecap are, Duncecap immediately throws up his hands and tells the officers, “I’ll tell you everything I know! Just don’t arrest me!” Dufus turns to his accomplices and says, “If either of you says a word, you are dead meat.” Duncecap immediately stops talking and claims he “doesn’t know anything about anything.”

As Do-Right is escorting Dripster to his cruiser after he has arrested him, a carload of Scruds drives by slowly. The Scruds’ leader, Stupido, leans out of his window and yells to Dripster, “I told you to keep your business off our turf!” Dripster, thinking Stupido is the reason that the cops raided the house, grabs Do-Right’s gun and opens fire towards Stupido’s car. Dripster misses Stupido and his car, but he shoots and injures a 12-year-old girl, Innocent, who is watching the arrests in her front yard across the street. Innocent survives but is paralyzed. At the same time, Stupido, realizing that Dripster is shooting at him, grabs his own weapon from the car and shoots at his arch-enemy but misses him.

Officers are able to safely transport Dripster, Dufus, Dummy, and Duncecap to the police station and have also arrested Stupido. They search Stupido’s car at the scene and find the gun he used to shoot at Dripster. Ballistics shows that the gun was used in a previous armed robbery of a party store. Stupido is charged with the robbery.

At the police station, Officer Justice, who is questioning Dummy without first reading Miranda warnings, tells Dummy that if he tells him everything he knows about the rivalry between the Drips and the Scruds and agrees to testify against the members of both gangs, the police will charge him with only possession of marijuana, a misdemeanor. Dummy takes the deal.

Stupido was interrogated at the police station regarding the armed robbery and told that he had been named as the robber by an eyewitness. He asked for his lawyer three times, but his lawyer, who arrived at the police station while Stupido was being interrogated, was twice denied entry to the interrogation. After three hours of interrogation, Stupido confesses to the armed robbery.

Dripster is convicted of attempted murder of Innocent and sentenced to death. He is also convicted of possession with intent to sell marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamine. He is additionally convicted of possession of stolen property (the electronics) and unregistered firearms. Stupido is convicted of the armed robbery and attempting to murder Dripster. Dufus and Duncecap are also convicted of possession with intent to sell marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamine; possession of stolen property (the electronics); and for unregistered firearms. Dummy is convicted of misdemeanor possession of marijuana.

The cases are all combined as People v. Dripster, Dummy & Stupido , et al. The following points have been appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States. You are an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and this case has come before the Court. The Chief Justice has assigned you to write a majority opinion resolving the case. In your paper,

  • Write an opinion (an analysis of the questions below that will serve as the reasoning and the ruling of the Supreme Court) that resolves the case based upon previous cases from the United States Supreme Court, other federal and state courts, and other scholarly sources.
  • Explain your opinion on each of the following points:
    • Evaluate whether all the evidence from the house should have been suppressed as fruit of the poisonous tree, because the placing of a tracking device on the Blazer driven by Dripster without a warrant and without probable cause violated the Fourth Amendment.
    • Assess whether all the evidence from the house should have been suppressed because the use of the Bloodhound device without a warrant and without probable cause violated the Fourth Amendment.
    • Determine whether all evidence from the house should have been suppressed because the warrant issued by the magistrate was based upon information obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment.
    • Rule on whether all evidence from the house should have been suppressed because the police officers did not knock and announce; the warrant was not a no-knock warrant.
    • Conclude whether the gun used by Stupido should have been suppressed because the officers had no right to search his car at the scene.
    • Examine whether Dummy’s conviction for marijuana possession should be overturned, because he was not read Miranda warnings before making a deal.
    • Evaluates whether Stupido’s confession should have been suppressed, because his lawyer was not allowed to see him.
    • Explain the validity of Dripster’s death sentence for shooting and paralyzing Innocent violates the Eighth Amendment.

A dam is being considered to reduce river flooding resulting from climate change. But if a dam is built, what height should it be? Increasing the dam’s height will reduce a flood’s probability and the damage when floods occur, but increase construction and maintenance costs. Which dam height minimizes the expected total annual cost?

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Generate Analytica models for the following two questions and upload your models (*.ana)

Question 1

A dam is being considered to reduce river flooding resulting from climate change. But if a dam is built, what height should it be? Increasing the dam’s height will reduce a flood’s probability and the damage when floods occur, but increase construction and maintenance costs. Which dam height minimizes the expected total annual cost?

Note that the state uses an interest rate of 7% for flood protection projects, and all the dams should last 60 years.

Dam height Construction cost Annual Maintenance cost Annual Prob(flood>height) Damage if flood occurs
No dam $0 $0/year 0.40 $1,000,000
10 ft $400,000 $2,000/year 0.20 $900,000
20 ft $500,000 $4,000/year 0.10 $800,000
30 ft $600,000 $6,000/year 0.05 $700,000
40 ft $700,000 $8,000/year 0.01 $600,000
50 ft $800,000 $10,000/year 0.001 $500,000

Question 2

A community near the ocean is suffering from drinking water scarcity due to climate change. The community plans to build a water desalination system to transform seawater into fresh water. Once its useful life is over, the system will be sold at salvage value. Considering the following conditions, what is the rate of return?

  • Uniform annual benefit: $80,000 per year
  • Initial cost: triangularly distributed with a min of $500,000, a mode of $700,000, and a max of $1,000,000
  • Salvage value: normally distributed with a mean of $60,000 and a standard deviation of $9,000
  • Useful life: uniformly distributed over 10 to 15 years

Conduct a Oneway ANOVA to determine if the three groups differ significantly on the GRE-Q measure. Report and summarize the results in correct APA style. What conclusions can you draw from these results? And do the three groups differ significantly in quantitative reasoning skills – if so, how? Is it justified to use GRE-Q as a covariate, Why?

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CASE STUDY

Dr. Antonia Natalie, Professor of Psychology at Thoreau University, wants to determine if her optional weekly Zoom lectures are having an impact on students’ grades in a graduate-level Behavioral Statistics course.

During the semester the professor records attendance for each of her ten Zoom lectures. Based on student attendance the professor creates 3 equal student groups. Group 1 (n = 50) consists of students that did not attend any Zoom Lectures. Group 2 (n = 50) consists of students that attended one to five lectures. And Group 3 (n = 50) consists of students that attended six to ten Zoom lectures.

Concerned that students that attend more Zoom lectures may also have higher Quantitative Reasoning Skills, the professor also records GRE Quantitative scores (GRE-Q) for each student.

Your job is to conduct an ANCOVA to determine if the Zoom attendance groups have significantly different final grade averages (on a 100-point scale ) in the Behavioral Statistics course, after controlling for their GRE-Q scores.

Conduct a Oneway ANOVA to determine if the three groups differ significantly on the GRE-Q measure. Report and summarize the results in correct APA style. What conclusions can you draw from these results? And do the three groups differ significantly in quantitative reasoning skills – if so, how? Is it justified to use GRE-Q as a covariate, Why?

Using the attached SPSS Data file, conduct the appropriate preliminary EDA to determine if a) the data meets the assumptions for ANCOVA (i.e., test for skewness/kurtosis), b) test for homogeneity of regression, and c) test for homogeneity of variances.

Conduct an ANCOVA in which Statistics grades (StatGrade) is the DV, Zoom group (ZGroup) is the IV, and GRE_Q is the covariate (CV). If the main effect for ZGroup is significant, conduct Bonferroni’s post hoc mean comparison tests.

In your summary:

1: State the goals of the present study

2: Write the correct Null (H0) and Alternative (H1) hypotheses

3: Report the results for the Oneway ANOVA in which Zgroup is the IV and GRE-Q is the DV.

4: Report and summarize the results for the tests for normality, homogeneity of regression slopes, and homogeneity of variances.

5: Report and summarize the results for the ANCOVA and post hoc mean comparison tests.

6: Be sure to include in your summary the conclusions and recommendation that can be drawn from the study.

7: Be sure to include the appropriate tables and figures. See my sample summary.

8: Model your summary after my sample summary.

Responses to classmates’ posts comprising at least 150 words supporting, challenging, clarifying, or adding to the existing information.

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Managerial Economics Reflection Response

Responses to classmates’ posts comprising at least 150 words supporting, challenging, clarifying, or adding to the existing information.

First:

My Managerial Economics class was eye-opening. I have a deep understanding of economics and how it applies to nursing. I learned about economic analysis, market types, and pricing elasticity. I also appreciate the game theory and its applicability to nursing. Understanding player behavior in different game scenarios has helped me make informed decisions as a nurse that benefit my patients and my company (Alam et al., 2021). I now understand how incentives and disincentives affect my decisions. I also studied how external factors affect a firm’s profitability and competitiveness. This knowledge has helped me improve my decisions and maximize advantages for my patients, organization, and myself.

This course helped me make decisions as a nurse. I use demand and elasticity to price my services. This lets me price my services competitively while making a profit. Game theory has helped me maximize patient outcomes by understanding my relationships with other healthcare practitioners. I interact with other healthcare practitioners to offer the greatest care for my patients, so this has been extremely beneficial. This training also helped me grasp healthcare economics and how they affect my daily practice. This helps me consider market forces and how they may affect my company’s performance. The education helped me as a nurse. I make decisions with limited resources in my job. This training taught me how to make market-based, economic-based decisions (Molina-Mula & Gallo-Estrada, 2020). I now understand how to evaluate costs and benefits and pricing schemes. This has enabled me to maximize benefits for my patients, the organization, and myself.

This course taught me about oligopoly and nursing. I learned that an oligopoly is a market structure where a few enterprises control prices. I now understand that my organization must perceive and comprehend the competitive climate to make the best decisions to stay competitive. This involves studying competitor strategies and how they affect the market (Alam et al., 2021). I also comprehend strategic thinking’s role in competitive advantage. This means predicting and responding to competing strategies and using the market structure and flexibility to my advantage when making judgments. The course also made me realize how important external factors are when making decisions. Understanding how external factors affect a firm’s profitability and competitiveness is now clear to me. This involves knowing how economic forces like inflation and recession affect politics and law. I also grasp how market structure and flexibility can help me make decisions. This involves understanding how different pricing methods might maximize revenues and the effects of charging different customers varying costs. This understanding has improved my nursing judgments.

Finally, understanding the economy is crucial to making the best selections. I now understand how economic factors might influence my decisions. Understanding inflation, recession, and political and legal changes are part of this. I also appreciate the need to understand the incentives and disincentives of our actions to make the best ones. This involves understanding how different pricing methods might maximize revenues and the effects of charging different customers varying costs (Ganin et al., 2020). I now understand that my organization must perceive and comprehend the competitive climate to make the best decisions to stay competitive. This involves studying competitor strategies and how they affect the market. This understanding has improved my nursing judgments.

Second:

Managerial economics is a critical aspect of any profession. As we learned in Chapter One, decision-making under scarce resources is the fundamental aspect of managerial economics. As a nurse leader, it is important to consider the various aspects that lead to making effective decisions. For instance, it is imperative to set goals and identify the constraints that could hamper the achievement of those goals. additionally, when making investment decisions, other critical elements such as the time value of money should be accounted for (Baye & Prince, 2017). Time value of money is a critical concept in economics and management, and it is one of the elements that I will ensure to focus much on as a nurse leader, especially when considering different investments to address the high cost of care.

Cost is one of the aspects that is currently focused on in healthcare. The cost of access to care and care delivery are both high (Bartsch et al., 2020). As a result, the healthcare system is seeping a lot of taxpayer money without significant changes in the quality of healthcare delivered. Drawing from the concepts of cost minimization rule and the roles managers play in the production process, I will use my knowledge and skill from this course to advance cost-effective measures in healthcare to address the issue of the high cost of care. High cost of care leads to overall low quality of life, and subsequent complications such as high mortality rates (Bartsch et al., 2020). With my knowledge of cost minimization, I am confident that I will be a positive force in the efforts to develop mitigation measures for access to high-quality and cost-effective care.

Week 6 was also fundamental in advancing my understanding of the different market structures and how firms in each structure can maximize their profits. There are three primary market structures discussed this week: the competitive, monopolistic, and monopolistically competitive markets. Compared to the other two, firms in a competitive market generate zero returns in the long term. This market structure is more hypothetical than real, considering that very limited real-life markets have all the conditions to facilitate the sustainability of a perfectly competitive market (Baye & Prince, 2017). The model of monopolistic competition suits the behavior of the United States healthcare sector. That is because, in terms of profit maximization and cost of care, firms can explore product differentiation for the services and products that customers do not bear the full costs of care.

Write and discuss Why LUX decided to expand and build in Maldives to include the BEFORE Maldives story, Inside BEFORE discussions, you will speak about the role of CSR driving the decision making process. With the company reason for building in Maldives and that analysis and evaluation.

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Natural machine translation with vanilla RNNs,LSTMs and Attention

Write and discuss Why LUX decided to expand and build in Maldives to include the BEFORE Maldives story, Inside BEFORE discussions, you will speak about the role of CSR driving the decision making process. With the company reason for building in Maldives and that analysis and evaluation. Why is market entry strategy so critical to the successful global expansion of hospitality development? It could be the maritime belt since they have other resorts in China and Marituius.

Describe meetings before the event. List three examples of instructions or advice that you received from the director or other crew member before/during/after that you would share with others.

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Sports Management Question

1. Describe meetings before the event. List three examples of instructions or advice that you received from the director or other crew member before/during/after that you would share with others.

2. What about the experience was surprising/unexpected?

4. What did you like about the experience? What did you not like?

5. Was there anything harder than expected or easier than expected?

6. What did you notice differently by working the broadcast than just being a normal fan at the game?

7. After your experience, have you watched sports any differently?

8. Anything else you’d like to add

Record a short video showing your schematics in Digital and your waveforms in GTKWave. Be sure to show yourself in the video and show your screen. Explain how your circuit works – you need to convince the grader you did the lab and understand it

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The Complete Microprocessor

Name:______________________________________   Instructor/Time:___________________________

Date:_________________________________________________________________________________

Task 4-1: Build and Test the Memory-Address-Generation Circuit

Include a picture of your Digital circuit here:

Comment on the single biggest issue you were facing when designing the circuit.

Did the circuit behave as expected? If no, what was wrong?

Comment on the single biggest issue you were facing when simulating the circuit.

Task 4-2: Build and Test the Controller Circuit

Include a picture of your two_bit_mux circuit here:

Comment on the single biggest issue you were facing when designing the circuit.

Did the circuit behave as expected? If no, what was wrong?

Comment on the single biggest issue you were facing when simulating the circuit.

Include a picture of your two_bit_reg circuit here:

Comment on the single biggest issue you were facing when designing the circuit.

Did the circuit behave as expected? If no, what was wrong?

Comment on the single biggest issue you were facing when simulating the circuit.

Include a picture of your controller circuit here:

Comment on the single biggest issue you were facing when designing the circuit.

Did the circuit behave as expected? If no, what was wrong?

Comment on the single biggest issue you were facing when simulating the circuit.

 

Task 4-3: Build the Complete Microprocessor Circuit

Include a picture of your Digital circuit here (make sure to show final values as shown in figure 17):

Please comment on the single biggest issue you were facing when designing the circuit.

Did the circuit behave as expected? If no, what was wrong?

Comment on the single biggest issue you were facing when simulating the circuit.

 

Task 4-4: Simulate the Design in Verilog

Include a picture of your waveforms here:

Comment on the single biggest issue you were facing when simulating the processor.

Did the circuit behave as expected? If no, what was wrong?

Comment on the single biggest issue you were facing when simulating the circuit.

 

Task 4-5: Add the AND, ZERO, SUB, and STORE ACC Instructions

Use Table 1 and Table 2 to enter your values into the microinstruction definition table for each of the four instructions asked for in the laboratory manual.  Be sure to label the name of each and every instruction.

 

Table 1
  Instruction  AND ZERO
  Opcode 3 4
  step 00 01 02 03 00 01 02 03
Description Bit #                
next_step[1:0] 13:12                
unused 11:10                
use_pc 9                
load_mar 8                
arith 7                
invert 6                
pass 5                
load_acc 4                
acc_to_db 3                
read 2                
write 1                
load_ir 0                

 

 

Table 2
  Instruction  SUB STORE ACC
  Opcode 5 6
  step 00 01 02 03 00 01 02 03
Description Bit #                
next_step[1:0] 13:12
unused 11:10                
use_pc 9                
load_mar 8                
arith 7                
invert 6                
pass 5                
load_acc 4                
acc_to_db 3                
read 2                
write 1                
load_ir 0                

 

Test your instructions by writing and executing programs.  Record at least four programs and the output of each program in tables like that of Table 3.

Table 3
Program #0 ( Example: ADD = 3+5)
Address Value Operation (In English)
0 0 The ‘Load ACC’ Opcode
1 3 The number ‘3’ to be loaded into the Accumulator
2 1 The ‘Add to ACC’ Opcode
3 5 The number ‘5’ to be added to the Accumulator
4 2 The ‘Stop’ Opcode
     
What was the final output of your program? ___8__
Was the program successful? YES_
If not what error(s) did you find in your circuit?

 

Program #   (      )
Address Value Operation (In English)
     
     
     
     
     
     
What was the final output of your program? _____
Was the program successful? Yes or No_
If not what error(s) did you find in your circuit?

 

Include a picture of your AND waveforms here:

Include a picture of your ZERO waveforms here:

Include a picture of your SUB waveforms here:

Include a picture of your STORE ACC waveforms here:

Did the circuit behave as expected? If no, what was wrong?

Comment on the single biggest issue you were facing when simulating the circuit.

Include a picture of your rom_vals.hex if your made choice 1 or 2 or a picture of the ROM for choice 3 here:

Include your program from ram_vals.txt:

 

 

 

Task 4-6: Invent Your Own Instruction (Extra Credit)

Table 4
  Instruction  
  Opcode 7
  step 00 01 02 03
Description Bit #        
next_step[1:0] 13:12        
unused 11:10        
use_pc 9        
load_mar 8        
arith 7        
invert 6        
pass 5        
load_acc 4        
acc_to_db 3        
read 2        
write 1        
load_ir 0        

 

Include your Verilog program here:

Include a picture of your waveforms here:

Include a picture of your ROM contents here:

Task 4-7: Create a video and submit your report

Record a short video showing your schematics in Digital and your waveforms in GTKWave. Be sure to show yourself in the video and show your screen. Explain how your circuit works – you need to convince the grader you did the lab and understand it! Copy and paste the link to your video below. Make sure the link is working and pointing to the correct video. Remember to include the password if required. Do NOT upload your video to Canvas or YouTube. If your circuit is not working as expected, explain in the video how it is not working and why you think it is not working.

The required unit resources included information on pricing. You are introduced to the shutdown price, using elasticity to determine the effects of price changes, and cost-based pricing. Discuss the importance of considering elasticity in pricing decisions and the danger of relying solely on costs.

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ECO 6301 Unit 1 and 2 Journal

Part 1

Instructions

  • There is growing concern about poverty and income inequality. These two concepts, however, are not the same. Income inequality deals with the percentage of income earned by the different income groups, while poverty is concerned with how difficult it is for the poor to meet basic needs. In Section 1.4, you read about deontological and consequential approaches to ethics. Using those approaches, evaluate how well free market systems versus government intervention in markets address poverty and income inequality. Include in your discussion an explanation of how people in a free market economy, acting in their own self-interest, can better those around them. Bring examples from your own experiences where your actions, though entirely self-motivated, resulted in a benefit to somebody else.Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.

Part 2

Instructions

The required unit resources included information on pricing. You are introduced to the shutdown price, using elasticity to determine the effects of price changes, and cost-based pricing. Discuss the importance of considering elasticity in pricing decisions and the danger of relying solely on costs.

Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.