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To purchase your home 14 years ago, you borrowed $324,000 using a 30-year fixed rate mortgage loan. The interest rate on the loan is 7.00% per year, compounded monthly. You have made all of your monthly payments on time and in full during these past 14 years. How much do you still owe on the loan today? (Enter your answer to the nearest whole dollar. Do not enter a dollar sign or any commas. For example, if your answer is $123,456.789, enter 123457. Do not worry if Canvas adds commas.)

You have been offered a contract that will pay you $4,000 at the end of year 1, $7,000 at the end of year 2, and $8,500 at the end of year 3. Instead of spending the money, you will invest it in an account that earns 5.6% per year, compounded annually. What will the account be worth at the end of year 11? (Enter your answer to the nearest whole dollar. Do not enter the dollar symbol or any commas. For example, if your answer is $123,456.789, enter 123457. Do not worry if Canvas adds commas.)

The company is forecasting Sales of $6,820 million for next year (2025). Using the percentage-of-sales approach, what should the SG&A forecast be? (Enter your answer to the nearest whole million. Do not enter a dollar sign or any commas. For example, if your answer is $1,234.56 million, enter 1235. Do not worry if Canvas adds commas.)

The company is forecasting Sales of $6,950 million for next year (2025). Using the percentage-of-sales approach, what should the SG&A forecast be? (Enter your answer to the nearest whole million. Do not enter a dollar sign or any commas. For example, if your answer is $1,234.56 million, enter 1235. Do not worry if Canvas adds commas.)

What was the Net Profit Margin? (Enter your answer to the nearest tenth of a percent. Do not enter the percentage symbol. For example, if your answer is 123.456789%, enter 123.5.)

Translate the following sentence into Spanish. After working hard all day, would you go to a place with a lively social scene (with a lot of fun) to have a good time? ¿Después de trabajar mucho durante todo el día, irías a un lugar con mucha marcha para ____________? (OJO: The answer is not the literal translation from English: “tener un buen tiempo”, which actually means “to have a good weather.” :))

BONUS:  James Madison famously stated that, “Liberty is to faction as air is to __________”, meaning that liberty (freedom) is required for factionalism to exist, and yet we should not eliminate liberty just to suppress the potential for harm.

Which of the following nerves is NOT part of the Brachial Plexus.

Which of the following arteries does not have any branches outside the skull?

The blue highlighted structure indicated by the yellow arrow in the illustration below is the: