A researcher is interested to know if there is a difference in levels of religiosity between different income groups. The researcher administers a religiosity scale to a total of 15 people: 5 "low income" individuals, 5 "middle income" individuals, and 5 "high income" individuals. The means for each group are as follows: Group A Low income N=5 Group B Middle Income N=5 Group C High Income N=5

∑X 37 22 43

Mean 7.4 4.4 8.6

∑X2 285 102 381

Carolyn has a 50 percent interest in a general partnership that has a $14,000 loss for the year. she materially participates in the partnership. her basis in the partnership is $10,000. she also has salary from other employment of $46,000. if she is single, has no dependents, and claims the standard deduction, what is her taxable income and her tax liability in 2017

Ancho corp. is an automobile company whose core competency lies in manufacturing petrol- and diesel- based cars. the company realizes that more of its potential customers are switching to electric cars. the r& d department of the company acquires competencies in developing electric cars and launches its first hybrid car, which uses both gas and electricity. in this scenario, ancho is primarilya. leveraging new core competencies to improve current market position. b. redeploying existing core competencies to compete in future markets. c. unlearning existing core competencies to create and compete in markets of the future. d. building new core competencies to protect and extend current market position

Consider the following two projects. both have costs of $5,000 in year 1. project 1 provides benefits of $2,000 in each of the first four years only. the second provides benefits of $2,000 for each of years 6 to 10 only. compute the net benefits using a discount rate of 6 percent. repeat using a discount rate of 12 percent. what can you conclude from this exercise?