An apartment manager lists a “luxury penthouse” in the newspaper for an astoundingly low price, even though he has no such units available. The idea is to lure people in and then try to sell them his relatively mediocre apartments. The manager is MOST likely using an influence technique known as the ____.

Suppose you meet an old man named Leo. You have no idea how old he is. To try to guess his age, you start with your grandfather’s age (80), and then add on a few years since Leo seems to be a little older. That is, you make use of ____.

The health belief model proposes that ____.

Preceding a large request with a smaller request to which people are likely to agree is a good way to get them to say yes to the second, more important, request. This strategy is known as the ____.

Felicity is exhausted from staying up too late and doesn’t perform well at her swim meet, as a result. Felicity will probably describe her poor performance as ____.

She was a well-known innovative American writer who heavily influenced writers of the “lost generation” such as Hemingway. She is also credited with the expression “a rose is a rose is a rose.” 

Determine the degree of the polynomial function. (2 pts)f(x) = 19×5 – 4×4 – 9

Use long division to find the quotient and the remainder. (4 pts)x2 + 11x + 19 divided by x + 4

Find the x-intercept(s) and y-intercept of the graph of the function. (6 pts)f(x) = x-intercept(s): y-intercept:

A company claims that the mean resistance of a specific brand of resistors is more than 10 ohms. A random sample of 25 resistors yielded a sample mean resistance of 10.4 ohms.  The null hypothesis is H0: [mean] [inequality] [null]