read the excerpt from "daughter of invention". meanwhile, yoyo was on her knees, weeping wildly, collecting all the little pieces of her speech, hoping that she could put it back together before the assembly tomorrow morning. but not even a sibyl could have made sense of those tiny scraps of paper. all hope was lost. "he broke it, he broke it," yoyo moaned as she picked up a handful of pieces. what conflict does yoyo face in this excerpt? yoyo is frustrated by her inability to write a good speech for the assembly at her school. yoyo is worried about insulting her teachers and peers with the speech she has written. yoyo is saddened by her father’s disapproval of the message in her speech for the assembly. yoyo is reminded of the terrors her father faced under the dictatorship of the dominican republic.

Afinancial institution, the thriftem bank, is in the process of formulating its loan policy for the next quarter. a total of $12 million is allocated for that purpose. being a full-service facility, the bank is obligated to grant loans to different clientele. the following table provides the types of loans, the interest rate charged by the bank, and the possibility of bad debt as estimated from past experience.type of loaninterest rateprobability of bad debtpersonal.140.10car.130.07home.120.03farm.125.05commercial.100.02 bad debts are assumed unrecoverable and hence produce no interest revenue either. competition with other financial institutions in the area requires that the bank allocate at least 40% of the total funds to farm and commercial loans. to assist the housing industry in the region, home loans must equal at least 50% of the personal, car, and home loans. the bank also has a stated policy specifying that the overall ratio for bad debts on all loans may not exceed .04. formulate this problem as a linear program. define your variables clearly and write all the constraints explaining the significance of each.

All of the industries and businesses in the country of marksenia are privately owned and sell products at different prices that are not controlled by the government or any other organizational body. consumers in marksenia are free to buy as much of the products as they like from the businesses they want. the country of marksenia has a

Sarah salesrep is brand new to her job selling "lifetime" printers that never need replacement ink cartridges. the problem is that these printers cost ten times more than a regular printer, so it is difficult to get prospective buyers to understand the cost savings of buying it. to break through the barrier and begin making sales, sarah should use a analysis that highlights her printer's lower cost.