The initial spark for the Indian Uprising of 1857 was

26. The essence of visual communication design is the use of ________ to communicate information and ideas.  

The scramble for Africa intensified tensions among the imperial powers, leading to the _______________ in 1884.

Steam engines were used first in

5. Sticks of chalk, pastel, and crayon are all made by combining pigment with ________.       

EXTRA CREDIT QUESTION: Correctly select the BEST college-level answer choice to earn 5 extra points on your final exam grade.  The recent Group Presentation Project required students to work with their peers to research, plan, and present information about __. 

Prussia’s series swift, victorious wars against Denmark, Austria, and finally France in 1870 under the leadership of Otto von Bismarck persuaded the individual German states to

 6. Before the invention of paper, drawings were done on ________.   

Stock in Country Road Industries has a beta of [beta]. The market risk premium is [mrp]% while T-bills are currently yielding [rf]%. Country Road’s last dividend was $[d] per share and dividends are expected to grow at an annual rate of [g]% indefinitely. The stock sells for $[p] a share. What is the estimated cost of equity using the average return of the CAPM and the dividend discount model? Input your answer in decimal form to the hundredth of one percentage point (i.e., ten-thousandths).

After World War I Argentina’s economy continued to grow because the war had broken its dependence on _________ economy and turned its productivity inward.