[Extra Credit: 10 pts] You should be writing two different functions to get full points for extra credit. Write a Python function called count_lowercase() that takes a string as an argument and counts and returns the number of lowercase characters in the argument. Write a Python function called count_digit() that takes a string as an argument and counts and returns the number of digits in the argument. Use the functions in Step a. and Step b. above to write a Python statement to validate a password where the password should have at least one lowercase character and one digit character. 

You are given a file “words.txt” that contains words from the English Language. The text is stored in the file as one sentence per line. The contents of the file  is similar to the following image: Write Python code to perform the following: Read all the contents of the file. Store each word in a list called words.  Remove periods and commas, that is, make sure that the elements in the words list do not contain any punctuation characters (don’t worry about any other non-alphabet characters). From the words list, create another list called length_seven such that each word in length_seven has exactly the length 7.

For which pair of firms would a merger be horizontal?

A Bagel shop owner has the following information about his cost, current production level and market price: P = MR = $5, ATC = $3, AVC = $1, MC = 5, and Q = 500. From this, he can determine  

If Herbert the hair stylist raises the price of his cuts from $13 to $15 and the demand for his cuts falls from 300 to 260, then we conclude that , within the price range of $13 and $15, demand is

The principal reason why two firms would form a conglomerate merger is to

In Exhibit K-8, the maximum profit the monopolist will be able to make is,-

In the Price Leadership model of Exhibit: X-3, how much will the leader produce in equilibrium?

Refer to the Kinked demand curve of X-4. If an oligopolistic firm with constant unit cost of $6 (cost per unit of output remains unchanged for all levels of output and there is no fixed cost), faces this demand curve, then the profit maximizing firm will

Suppose your accountant told you that the economic profit you made last year was $40,000. You would be pleased because the $40,000 represents your total revenue minus