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“No roads marked the way to the traveler in California then; but, guided by the sun and well-known mountain peaks, we proceeded on our journey…. Some forty or fifty men were at work with the cradle machines, and were averaging about eight ounces [of gold] per day to the man. But a few moments passed before I was knee deep in water, with my wash-basin full of dirt, plunging it about endeavoring to separate the dirt from the gold. After washing some fifty pans of dirt, I found I had realized about four bits’ worth of gold. Reader, do you know how [one] feels when the gold fever heat has suddenly fallen to about zero? I do…. The Indians who were working for Capts. Sutter and Weber gave them leading information, so that they were enabled to know the direction in which new discoveries were to be made…. The morals of the miners of ’48 should here be noticed. No person worked on Sunday at digging for gold…. We had ministers of the gospel amongst us, but they never preached. Religion had been forgotten, even by its ministers, and instead of their pointing out the narrow way which leads to eternal happiness…. they might have been seen, with pick-axe and pan, traveling untrodden [untraveled] ways in search of … treasure… or drinking good health and prosperity with friends.”  — James H. Carson, describing life in the early California gold fields, 1848 Which of the following developments MOST directly led to the activities described in the excerpt? 

“I know not how to thank you for the deep and lively interest you have been pleased to take in the cause of … the emancipation of a people, who, for two long centuries, have endured, with the utmost patience, a bondage, one hour of which… is worse than ages of that which your fathers rose in rebellion to oppose.  “It is such indications on the part of the press – which, happily, are multiplying throughout the land – that kindle up within me an ardent hope that the curse of slavery will not much longer be permitted to make its iron foot-prints in the lacerated [deeply cut] hearts of my…brethren…. I am called, by way of reproach, a runaway slave.  As if it were a crime – an unpardonable crime – for a man to take his unalienable rights!  “But why [you], a New York editor, born and reared in the State of Maine, far removed from the contaminated… atmosphere of slavery, should pursue such a course [supporting abolition], is not so apparent. I will not, however, stop here to acertain the cause, but deal with fact…. “The object… is simply to give such an exposition of the degrading influence of slavery upon the master and his [supporters] as well as upon the slave – to excite such an intelligent interest on the subject of American slavery – as may react upon that country, and tend to shame her out of her adhesion to a system which all must confess to disagree with justice….  I am earnestly and anxiously laboring to wipe off this foul blot from the… American people, that they may accomplish in behalf of human freedom that which their exalted position among the nations of the earth amply fits them to do.”  — Frederick Douglass to New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley, 1846 Rhetoric in the excerpt would most likely have been interpreted as promoting which of the following? 

Please download a copy of the Midterm Excel workbook (When you click on the link, it will open in a new window. Select the “Download BUSAD 525 Midterm” link and save a copy of the file to your computer using the following naming convention: BUSAD525_Midterm_LastName) Complete the problems provided on the Excel spreadsheets.  There are 4 tabbed spreadsheets, one for each problem.  When you have completed all the problems, save your Excel workbook and upload the file by clicking on the “Choose a File” button below. When you have completed all the problems, save your Excel workbook and upload the file. (Please use the following naming convention for your file: BUSAD525_Midterm_LastName)

In a one-tailed hypothesis test, the alternative hypothesis specifies: .

The shares of two companies, A and B have the following expected returns: Prob Return A Return B.1 20% 10%.4 25% 15%.5 30% 25%The expected returns for A and B are:

By referring to Problem 11, the covariance of the returns of A and B are:

Part 1:  Multiple-choice questions to test your understanding of the concepts 20 questions, worth 1 point each

if you own 14,000 shares of stock of Nike and it pays a dividend of ​$0.23 per​ share, then what is the total dividend you will​ receive?

Intrinsic factor helps with

A nurse is caring for a patient with increased intracranial pressure (ICP) of 25 mmHg and a mean arterial pressure (MAP) of 70 mmHg. Five hours into the shift, the patient’s blood pressure begins to increase while ICP remains stable, how does this impact cerebral perfusion pressure and cerebral blood flow?