You’ve decided to buy a house that is valued at $1 million. you have $100,000 to use as a down payment on the house, and want to take out a mortgage for the remainder of the purchase price. your bank has approved your $900,000 mortgage, and is offering a standard 30-year mortgage at a 10% fixed nominal interest rate (called the loan’s annual percentage rate or apr). under this loan proposal, your mortgage payment will be per month. (note: round the final value of any interest rate used to four decimal places.)

Match the following definitions to your vocabulary words. 1. separation from a main group to form a new group as a result of disunity ethnic 2. group of people that share a distinctive race, culture, heritage, or nationality discrimination 3. removal of legal and social barriers which impose separation of groups integration 4. practice that treats equal people unequally; denial of opportunities to compete for social and economic rewards stereotyping 5. acting in a biased manner; using prejudicial thinking segregation

What is the opportunity cost in this scenario? harry has been very busy at work for the past two weeks. he has been working weekends too. finally, he is going to get a weekend off. originally, he planned to paint his apartment that weekend. he also considered going fishing for the weekend. but then his parents called and asked him to come for dinner because it has been a while since they have seen each other. later on, his friend theo informed him about a surprise birthday party for another friend. theo plans to reserve a room at a restaurant for the celebration, with the cost to reserve the room split between theo, harry, and three other friends. now harry is confused about what he should do over the weekend. he decides that, for him, the most important commitments are going over to his parent's house and attending his friend's birthday party. in the end, harry decides to see his parents.

Acompany that makes shopping carts for supermarkets and other stores recently purchased some new equipment that reduces the labor content of the jobs needed to produce the shopping carts. prior to buying the new equipment, the company used 6 workers, who produced an average of 79 carts per hour. workers receive $16 per hour, and machine coast was $49 per hour. with the new equipment, it was possible to transfer one of the workers to another department, and equipment cost increased by $11 per hour while output increased by four carts per hour. a) compute the multifactor productivity (mfp) (labor plus equipment) under the prior to buying the new equipment. the mfp (carts/$) = (round to 4 decimal places). b) compute the productivity changes between the prior to and after buying the new equipment. the productivity growth = % (round to 2 decimal places)