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This condition is the most common inherited blood disorder in the United States. It causes episodes of pain, anemia, increased susceptibility to infection. In hemolytic crises the red blood cells break down and in aplastic crises, bone marrow fails to product blood cells. People from a number of countries have this condition but is more common in the U.S. in persons of African American or Hispanic ancestry. The disease is life threating and can cause stroke. This condition is called what?  

At eight years old, Kim was first abused by her uncle and his best friend. The abuse occurred for over two years until the abuse was discovered by her father who killed both men in the girl’s presence. Kim was also sexually attacked in high school when she went to a party at one of her friend’s houses. There was a lot of alcohol consumed and Kim felt guilty that she had gone to the party. She never mentioned the incident to her mother, because of her guilt and her previous experiences. In college, Kim was drugged at a fraternity party and found herself in the bed of what she thought was a male friend being sexually attacked. Kim did not remember any of the abuse until she began therapy at age 30 years. She began to see a therapist after a car accident that caused her to have a flash back. Freud would consider putting traumatic experiences into the unconscious what?                    

Oliver a two-year-old child attributes human-creating to all things, the sky, the moon, the sun, animals, and the tree outside his window. His mother is disturbed by his ideas, but we know that this passing phase of preoperational thought is called what?

(I) The average lifetime of a debt security’s stream of payments is called duration. (II) The duration of a portfolio is the weighted average of the durations of the individual securities, with the weights reflecting the proportion of the portfolio invested in each.

If you invest $20,000 and achieve an annual return of 15% for 30 years, the value of your investment will be____________         

Suppose the average industry PE ratio for auto parts retailers is [x]. What is the current price of a stock if the company’s earnings per share is projected to be $[y]?

Suppose you had to choose between a 12% 30-year mortgage or an 11.4% mortgage with 2 discount points.  Assume you wished to borrow $[x]. What will be the monthly payment if you want to take the 2 discount points. (Please use 4 decimal points in your calculation and keep two decimal points in your answer. For example, your answer should be something like 879.46)

According to the Gordon growth model, what is an investor’s valuation of a stock whose current dividend is $1.00 per year if dividends are expected to grow at a constant rate of [x] percent over a long period of time and the investor’s required return is [y] percent? 

How many mL of 0.925 M nitric acid are necessary to completely react with 48.20 mL of a 0.250 M calcium hydroxide solution?

In an acid-base neutralization reaction 23.74 mL of 0.400 M sodium hydroxide reacts with 50.00 mL of sulfuric acid solution. What is the concentration of the H2SO4 solution?