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Please provide a projected economic impact for the following scenario: The President of the United States has just signed an executive order that will increase the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28% and has included unrealized gains in this new tax rate. The new rate will force corporations to pay the 28% tax on income generated by the corporation and on any increase in value on property, plant, and equipment. Land values in the U.S. are projected to reach an all-time high which has private equity firms interested in purchasing land traditionally in agriculture production. Currently, most family farms have made the transition from sole proprietorships to LLCs that will be affected by this new legislation. In addition to the new tax rate, the president has also enacted a costly tariff on China, the number one purchaser of U.S. cotton. Currently, Brazil, a new entrant into the cotton market, has created a trade relationship with China that offers incentives for the Chinese to import Brazilian cotton.

Please match the following elasticity concepts to the most correct description.

Please match the following concepts to the correct description.

A resident who is in isolation needs a temperature taken several times a day. Where is the appropriate place for the thermometer to be kept?

Which of the following is an example of disinfection?

Consider this statement: “People who use social media got worse grades in college, even when the researchers controlled for the level of college preparation (operationalized by SAT scores) of the students.” What does this mean?

In a multiple regression design, _______ variable is to dependent variable as _______ is to independent variable.

The results of the Bazzini et al. (2010) suggested that overall, character beauty was positively associated with ratings of goodness.

RESEARCH STUDY: Dr. Ickes is interested in studying the potential causal relationship between doing homework and academic achievement. In January, Dr. Ickes has her students report their Fall GPA (a measure of academic achievement) and estimate how many hours they spent doing homework during a typical week in the Fall semester. In April, Dr. Ickes measures the same variables again (the estimated number of hours spent doing homework during a typical week in the Spring semester and their Spring GPA). She finds the following correlations. Based on her pattern of correlations, which of the following can Dr. Ickes safely conclude?  

RESEARCH STUDY: Dr. Guidry conducts a study examining the relationship between the number of friends one has and the experience of daily stress and life satisfaction. She randomly samples 1,500 elderly men and women in Nashville, Tennessee. Below are her findings: Life satisfaction and experience of daily stress: r = –.57, 95% CI [–.77, –.37] Number of friends one has and experience of daily stress: r = .09, 95% CI [–.27, .45] Number of friends one has and life satisfaction: r = .36, 95% CI [.12, .60] Dr. Guidry finds that the relationship between the number of friends one has and life satisfaction is stronger for men than for women. In this study, gender (male or female in this study) is considered a(n)