Dahil sa lakas ng ulan na dulot ng bagyo, binaha ang inyong barangay. Ang inyong kapitbahay na dating kagalit ninyo ay lumubog ang bahay. Dahil sa biglang pagtaas ng tubig- baha, hindi sila agad nakalikas. May second floor ang inyong bahay. Bagamat nagkaroon kayo ng alitan dati, paano mo maipapakita ang iyong pagdamay?

You are chairman of the board of a successful technology firm. there is a nominal federal corporate tax rate of 35 percent, yet the effective tax rate of the typical corporation is about 12.6%. your firm has been clever with use of transfer pricing and keeping money abroad and has barely paid any taxes over the last 5 years; during this same time period, profits were $28 billion. one member of the board feels that it is un-american to use various accounting strategies in order to avoid paying taxes. others feel that these are legal loopholes and corporations have a fiduciary responsibility to minimize taxes. one board member quoted what the ceo of exxon once said: “i’m not a u.s. company and i don’t make decisions based on what’s good for the u.s.” what are the alternatives? what are your recommendations? why do you recommend this course of action?

True or false: a fitted model with more predictors will necessarily have a lower training set error than a model with fewer predictors.

Andy purchases only two goods, apples (a) and kumquats (k). he has an income of $125 and can buy apples at $5 per pound and kumquats at $5 per pound. his utility function is u(a, k) = 6a + 2k. what is his marginal utility for apples and his marginal utility for kumquats? andy's marginal utility for apples (mu subscript a) is mu subscript aequals 6 and his marginal utility for kumquats (mu subscript k) is