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A 54-year-old male presents to his primary care physician. He has been feeling very tired lately and thinks that he looks more pale. The physician orders a complete blood count, which shows: Hgb 8.5; WBC 1,200; platelets 70,000. The patient is referred for bone marrow biopsy, which shows the findings (see image below). Which of the following is the most likely diagnosis?

Bee Corp. has only a few layers of management between the CEO and entry-level employees, allowing for quicker decision-making and more employee autonomy. This describes a:

In order to reduce production costs, Autoworks, an automobile manufacturer, decided to buy out a glass plant and begin manufacturing the glass for the windows of cars on its own. The corporate strategy adopted by the company is known as

A 20 y/o female college student comes to student health with complaints of fatigue, fever, sore throat, and nausea.  She states that a couple of her friends have had the same thing and were told it was a virus and they needed to stay on bed rest.  Her temp today is 102F and her throat is erythematous with tender posterior cervical lymphadenopathy.  Her liver is also slightly tender and extend 2cms below the costal margin.  Which of the following tests would help you the most with your diagnosis?

The nurse reviews the chart of a patient diagnosed with a spinal cord injury. Documentation states, “Absent sacral (anal) sparing. ASIA assessment level is ‘A’.” How does the nurse interpret these findings?

Suppose a satellite is in a low-Earth orbit. Is it possible that the satellite will eventually fall to the ground? Why or why not? (Hint: Do not forget to consider presence of the Earth atmosphere!)

Bonus Question According to the video about the credit card default, you were given the following two tables: Coef z-stat intercept -3.50 -49.55 student 0.40 3.52 and Coef z-stat intercept -10.87 -22.08 balance 0.01 24.74 income 0.00 0.37 student -0.65 -2.74 Why do the coefficients of student have different signs in these two tables?  The Best reason is:

An object’s velocity v as a function of time t is given in the graph above. Which of the following statements is true about the motion of the object?

A newly designed screening test called GatorTest has a sensitivity of 56% and a specificity of 69% when used to detect GatorBait Disease. Given this information, which of the following statements is TRUE regarding the performance of the GatorTest?

A bicyclist moves in a straight line, initially at 10 m/s, uniformly increases its speed to 14 m/s covering a distance of 48 m. What is the bicyclist’s acceleration?