You are the HR Director for a manufacturing firm located in Charlotte, NC and your company has just been awarded its first federal contract of $200,000. This contract is to supply one of your major products over a two-year period to the Department of Defense. You have been asked by the CEO to perform the utilization/availability analyses required under Executive Order 11246 as input in developing an Affirmative Action Plan as required by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance (OFCCP). Required:
a. Generate and complete a spreadsheet and relevant labor market job category.
b. Indicate job categories in which women and minorities are underutilized.

Suppose that jim plans to borrow money for an education at texas a& m university. jim will need to borrow $25,000 at the end of each year for the next five years (total=$125,000). jim wishes his parents could pay for his education but they can’t. at least, he qualifies for government loans with a reduced interest rate while he is in school. he has a special arrangement with aggiebank to lend him the money at a subsidized rate of 1% over five years without having to make a payment until the end of the fifth year. however, at the end of the fifth year, jim agrees to pay off the loan by borrowing from longhorn bank. longhorn bank will lend him the money he needs at an annual interest rate of 6%. jim agrees to pay back the longhorn bank with 20 annual payments and the payments will be uniform (equal annual payments including principal and interest). (i) calculate how much money jim has to borrow at the end of 5 years to pay off the loan with aggiebank. a. $121,336 b. $127,525 c. $125,000 d. $102,020 e. none of the above

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

If the family’s net monthly income is 7,800 what percent of the income is spent on food clothing and housing?