Suppose that an investor with a six-month investment horizon is considering purchasing a 15-year 5% coupon bond (face value=$1,000) selling at $920.58.  The investor expects that six months later the bond will be selling to offer a yield to maturity of 5.3%. What is the holding period return of this bond? Assume semiannual compounding.

Walt Whitman was best known for writing traditional sonnets that were similar in style to those Shakespeare wrote.

Walt Whitman helped nurse injured soldiers during the Civil War.

Solve the system of equations using substitution.  Show all work on scratch paper. Write your final solutions as ordered pairs.

Whitman disliked Abraham Lincoln and supported the South during the Civil War.

A patient presents to the hospital with reports of headache with visual changes.  Patient denies any significant medical history.  Heart rate on arrival is 97 and BP 232/118.  Which of the following medications is the most appropriate initial therapy given his presentation?

What is “B” in the diagram below?      

Frederick Douglass was born in which state?

How did Frederick Douglass learn to write?

Douglass describes in horrible detail examples of the cruelty of his first master, Captain Anthony. What did Captain Anthony do that caused Douglass to hide in the closet?