Kate is a research assistant for her favorite biology professor, Dr. Ogechi. Dr. Ogechi is interested in studying the effects of feeding a certain chemical to rats to see how it affects their appetites. Kate knows from her economics class that to isolate the effects of a particular phenomenon, all other things must remain the same. In Latin, this is referred to as . In order to keep all other things the same and isolate the effects of one particular variable in the biology experiment, Kate will want to do which of the following? Check all that apply. Offer the same type of food to the rats in each trial. Avoid drawing conclusions after one trial. Make sure all tested rats are the same age

You have just been hired as a financial analyst for barrington industries. unfortunately, company headquarters (where all of the firm's records are kept) has been destroyed by fire. so, your first job will be to recreate the firm's cash flow statement for the year just ended. the firm had $100,000 in the bank at the end of the prior year, and its working capital accounts except cash remained constant during the year. it earned $5 million in net income during the year but paid $800,000 in dividends to common shareholders. throughout the year, the firm purchased $5.5 million of machinery that was needed for a new project. you have just spoken to the firm's accountants and learned that annual depreciation expense for the year is $450,000; however, the purchase price for the machinery represents additions to property, plant, and equipment before depreciation. finally, you have determined that the only financing done by the firm was to issue long-term debt of $1 million at a 6% interest rate. what was the firm's end- of-year cash balance? recreate the firm's cash flow statement to arrive at your answer

You are a manager at asda. you have been given the demand data for the past 10 weeks for swim rings for children. you decide to run multiple types of forecasting methods on the data to see which gives you the best forecast. if you were to use exponential smoothing with alpha =.8, what would be your forecast for week 22? (the forecast for week 21 was 1277.) week demand 12 1317 13 1307 14 1261 15 1258 16 1267 17 1256 18 1268 19 1277 20 1277 21 1297

Which of the following statements regarding the southern economy at the end of the nineteenth century is accurate? the south was producing as much cotton as it had before the civil war.