Two alternative investments are being considered. Design A has an initial cost of $3 million and annual cost of 135,000 dollars per year. Design B has an initial cost of $3.7 million and annual cost of 70,000 dollars per year. What is the rate of return of design B as compared to design A? Hint it is between 5% and 10%. Enter your answer as a number without a percent sign. 

Chapter 6 – Critical Thinking: remember to fully explain and develop your responses by referring to key terms and concepts from the course content. Provide analysis and revision at the college level. Number your responses for clarity.    What does this quotation mean?: “Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.” -Theodore T. Hunger What is your current overall course grade (found in Canvas)? __________________________ Thinking critically about your effort his semester, would you honestly say that you have a growth mindset or a fixed mindset regarding your academics? ________________________ Think critically about your effort so far this semester. Are you doing all you can by holding yourself accountable and making productive daily changes to ensure your success Now, continuing to think critically about yourself and your progress so far this semester, what will it take for you to be fully successful this semester in school? Be specific.

Chapter 13 – Civility and Emotional Intelligence: remember to fully explain and develop your responses by referring to key terms and concepts from the course content. Provide analysis and revision at the college level. Number your responses for clarity.    In order to be emotionally intelligent, one must begin by acknowledging and understanding his/her own feelings. Why is this the FIRST step to being emotionally intelligent? Explain fully. How will developing your emotional intelligence and civility help you professionally? Be specific and use examples.

Chapter 5 – Learning Styles: remember to fully explain and develop your responses by referring to key terms and concepts from the course content. Provide analysis and revision at the college level. Number your responses for clarity.    What is your 4/5 letter Myers-Briggs personality code? __________________________ What does that code mean? Explain your four letter code: What does the VARK acronym stand for? What was your VARK result? ____________________________ How can you use both of these personal assessment results to help you in school? Be specific.

Chapters 7-9 – Note Taking, Reading Effectively, and Test Preparation: remember to fully explain and develop your responses by referring to key terms and concepts from the course content. Provide analysis and revision at the college level. Number your responses for clarity.    Name a note taking method that would be most effective for you considering your VARK learning style? Explain why this method is effective for your learning preference. When preparing to read text in college, list at least three pre-reading strategies that you should employ before beginning to read:

In the western United States, pronghorn antelopes and domestic cattle often associate with one another in the same open rangeland. In a hypothetical situation, a certain species of flea originally fed only on pronghorn antelopes. Some of these fleas developed a strong preference for cattle blood and mated only with other fleas that also preferred cattle blood. The host mammal can be considered as the fleas’ habitat. Which of the following processes most likely occurred if the situation persisted and a new species evolved?

Which of the following statements is accurate if we view evolution both as a pattern and a process?  

Which of the following possible isolating mechanisms prevents individuals from wasting time and energy hybridizing with an individual of another species?  

Which of the following provides an example of a mechanical isolation as a prezygotic barrier?  

Two populations of birds with somewhat different coloration live on opposite sides of a peninsula. The habitat between the populations is not suitable for these birds. When birds from the two populations are brought together in captivity, they interbreed and produce fertile young whose appearance is intermediate between the two parents. In the wild, the two populations remain separate as a result of which of the following factors?