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Draw all products expected from the addition of 1 equivalent of HCl to the diene shown below. Show all reactive intermediates and resonance structures that lead to the final products. Identify both the kinetic and thermodynamic products from this reaction.  

According to Sparke, commodity fetishism means that consumers in wealthy countries are fully aware of the labor conditions behind the goods they purchase.

Provide the structures of the products and clearly indicate the stereochemistry. (Assume the kinetic product will be major).

A regression line should generally be used to make predictions only for x values that are within, or close to, the range of x values observed in the data.

Thirty percent of the math majors at one university are women. A math major is selected at random. True or False: It is possible to have a 25% chance that the selected student is a women with a minor in finance.

Provide the Diene and Dienophile for each of the following Diels-Alder products.

According to Haley Edwards, the primary purpose of the Bretton Woods agreement and the GATT that followed it was to foster economic interdependence among nations as a foundation for world peace.

A food company plans to conduct an experiment to compare its brand of coffee with that of two competitors. A single person is hired to taste each of three brands of coffee, which are unmarked except for identifying symbols, A, B, and C. The taster will rank the three coffees from most desirable to least desirable, with no ties. If the taster cannot distinguish taste, assume all six rankings are equally likely. (3 pts each) a. Define the experiment. b. List the simple events in the sample space S. c. If the taster has no ability to distinguish difference in taste among coffees, what is the probability that the taster will rank coffee type C as the most desirable? As the least desirable?

Customers at a gas station pay with a credit card, a debit card, or cash. Fifty percent of customers pay with a credit card, and twenty five percent pay with a debit card. Two customers are selected at random. The chance they both paid with cash is: (answers are in decimal form)

Two hundred single-sport athletes were cross-classified according to gender as follows: (12 pts; 2 pts each) Gender Swimmer (S) Runner (R) Cyclist (C) Total Male (M)  25 60 25 110 Female (F) 20 50 20 90 Total 45 110 45 200 An athlete is selected at random. a. What is the probability that the athlete is a runner? b. What is the probability that the athlete is a female runner? c. If the athlete is known to be a runner, what is the probability that the athlete is female? d. What is the probability that the athlete is male, a swimmer, or both? e. Are the events being a female and being a swimmer mutually exclusive? Justify your answer.  f. Are the single-sport type and gender of athletes independent? Justify your answer.