...This week’s discussion asks that we evaluate algebraic expressions. In this initial post I will be referring to the following words to demonstrate my understanding of their meaning and how it relates to my work. Exponent, Integer, Variable, Lowest terms, and Divisor. I used my son’s birthdate for the first part of this assignment and it is December 7, 1993. This means that I will be using the following integers to solve the following three expressions. a = 12, b = -17, and c = 93 I will be using algebraic expressions in problems A-C given in this week’s assignment. A. a3 – b3 This is the given expressions with variables a and b exponents of 3 on each of them. 123 – (-173) I have plugged in 12 for variable a and -17 for variable b. 1728 – (-4913) The integers were raised to the given exponents. 1728 + 4913 When you minus a negative it becomes a plus. 6641 Here is my final answer. B. (a – b)(a2 + ab + b2) This given expression uses variables a and b. [12 – (-17)][122 + 12(-17) + (-17)2] I have plugged in 12 for a and -17 for b in each problem. [12 + 17][144 + (-204) + 289] In the first part the two negatives became a plus, and in ...
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...|Corps |Aileen Liu |CMA: | |Member: | | | | |Objective 18: SWBAT solve word problems with two-step equations |Knowledge: | | | |Certain words in a word problem can clue us in to the mathematical symbols that| | |A cab ride costs $5 for the first mile and $4 for each additional mile.|relate the values that appear in the word problem. | | |Carlo’s cab ride cost $13. | | | |How many miles was the ride? |Skills: | | |A. 2 |Identify the givens | | |B. 3 |Circle all the values | | |C. 4 ...
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...(Definition of Strategy) "Strategy is the direction and scope of an organisation over the long-term: which achieves advantage for the organisation through its configuration of resources within a challenging environment, to meet the needs of markets and to fulfil stakeholder expectations.” (Johnson and Scholes) Mintzberg starts off by identifying that there are differences in strategy, some are ‘intended’ and others ‘realised’. He states that this diagram allows the distinction of deliberate and emergent strategy to be identified. (Definition of Deliberate) It follows a calculated formula, where they set a goal, define a set of steps to reach that goal and then methodically act on each step, formulated by central leadership. This is a conscious and rational process that involves assessment of market structure, competitive analysis and detailed market research to determine specific customer needs, so much so it is a ‘surprise free situation’. (Definition of Emergent) On the other hand, an emergent strategy is a pattern of actions that develops over time in an organization in the absence (or despite) a specific set of goals. The extent to which change can be differentiated depends on whether a company chooses to implement developmental, transactional or transformational change (Ackerman 1997) As Mintzberg says, it is unlikely for a firm to be operating a ‘purely emergent’ or ‘purely deliberate’ strategy. Firms lie in between the two, which could be seen as the...
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...The departmental meeting that I attended is a general scheduled meeting that occurs every Thursday at a specific time, like clockwork. Within this group meeting, several entities from the branch come together to discuss a multitude of topics; ranging from the past weeks performances, issues that have come up, how the issue was resolved, and future business. Generally, there are eight people involved with this process; evenly divided among gender. However, there is a variance of age groups as well as ethnicity. The general purposes of the meetings reflect the company’s core values with regards to the relationship with the group’s purpose, mission, and overall goal. It is through my observation, which I gained great insight with regards to the flow of the meeting and the overall behavioral influence that individual attitudes have upon the impact of the group's effectiveness. The purpose of the weekly meetings is to raise awareness with regards to how the group is doing individually and as a team through constructive criticism. It is through these meeting that the group is enabled to discuss a variety of issues that may arise throughout the week while providing feedback with regards to lessons learned and how they can provide better customer service while employing the company’s core values. The mission of the group meetings enables the team to engage and discuss an array of items that include ways to enhance our job performance while focusing on the self “individual” and...
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...Many people are intimidated and afraid of mathematics and algebra largely due to the fact that upon first glance, certain problems or expressions may seem overwhelmingly large, difficult, or complicated. Along with remembering formulas, this can often times lead to anger, confusion, and frustration. There are several very important key elements and aspects involved within mathematics that helps combat this confusion and frustration and can even help the most intimidated person feel at ease and comfortable with solving these problems. This particular report will demonstrate the importance of understanding certain key mathematical principles and components and show how understanding and utilizing certain mathematical definitions can help limit the amount of confusion and intimidation one may have. These definitions include but are not limited to simplifying, adding like terms, coefficient, distributive property, and removing parenthesis. This report will also demonstrate how much easier and more simplistic mathematics and algebra can be by remembering and utilizing just a few important concepts. Example 1: 2^a(a-5) +4(a-5) This is the first example that will be used. The variable a is used. This particular example has a coefficient of two. Step 1: The distributive property can be utilized to multiply 2a by everything inside of the parenthesis (a-5 in this case) resulting in: 2a^2-10a Step 2: The distributive property is used once again to multiply 4 by everything in the...
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...The organizational structure of any company is important. The structure of a business shows how it is managed and organized and can be split into several departments that operate separately with different levels of responsibility. Depending on the industry of the business, having several departments that operate separately will give a company a number of advantages. For example, to distinguish the differences in the products and services a company has to offer will show the work flow of the company, and offer a variety of products and services to clientele for a specific business. Versatility in a business can be very advantageous because it will give a client a variety of services to choose from. Top Job Staffing, Inc. is a hospitality service company with a structure similar to the one mentioned above. They provide professional bartenders, trained banquet staff and culinary services. Services are provided for banquets, hotels, country clubs, private residence, and corporate events. Top Job Staffing has a very stringent screening process for applicants that apply for positions with the organization. Appearance and attitude are a major focus for deciding which applicants have the required skill level to meet the benchmarks established by the company, in addition to meeting client needs. A part of the screening process requires each applicant to complete a mandatory three day training class regardless of the number of years of experience. The structure of...
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...Working in teams is one the experience that every student has to go through during his or her career path at the university. Not only it helps you to be ready for the work force, but it also helps you to build a good relationship with your classmates which contributes to increase your networking. During that experience, students have to go through many important steps such as having great time working together and coordinating a good time to meet up. I will talk about my contribution, about our type of meetings, and also the issues we when through to have a successful presentation. The first step we had was to establish a good communication between each person which is very important for meetings. This leads to build a good relationship with each other in class and outside of class. After a good communication has been set up, we usually set up a time to meet up to discuss headlines about our presentation. Most of the time we had conflict to find a mutual time agreement and we used this website where everyone entered his or her free time and we could see a day and time where everyone can meet up. The most important part of that meeting is to assign everyone a task in the textbook. In the worst case scenario we can usually meet on Skype to have that step done. Once that step is done, it becomes more personal where everyone has to do his or her own research. It usually consists on working on a part of the presentation topic. I usually read the book to have a better understanding...
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...The definition of a discourse community is a group of people that have the same interest, shared the same goal with one and another, have the same language/ vocabulary, and have communication with one and another. According to John Wales the author of The Concept of Discourse Community. Discourse community can be anything, but it must meet his six characteristics that includes; common goal, intercommunication, members, lexis, information and feedback, and genre. If a group can meet the six characteristics it can be consider as a discourse community. After reading the article, I have realized that there are a lot discourse community among us without we even acknowledge it, for an example; like a book club,a sport club, a culinary club,and a yoga club. The one that I am going to use as an example for the discourse community is my Asian Community. The common goal that my discourse community has is to bring all the Asian youth to become one unity with one and another. My Asian community is a very small discourse community, but despite the size we have one big goal which is to achieve for all the Asian youth to stand together as a unity no matter what languages we speak. This group started because a friend of mine from high school had an idea to bring all Asian students in my high school to just spend quality time together, talk about each other cultures, and relate with one another. She felt there is a distance between all of us in school, and fortunately this group grew bigger...
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...Preface The last decade has seen a number of exciting developments at the intersection of commutative algebra with combinatorics. New methods have evolved out of an inux of ideas from such diverse areas as polyhedral geometry, theoretical physics, representation theory, homological algebra, symplectic geometry, graph theory, integer programming, symbolic computation, and statistics. The purpose of this volume is to provide a selfcontained introduction to some of the resulting combinatorial techniques for dealing with polynomial rings, semigroup rings, and determinantal rings. Our exposition mainly concerns combinatorially de_ned ideals and their quotients, with a focus on numerical invariants and resolutions, especially under gradings more re_ned than the standard integer grading. This project started at the COCOA summer school in Torino, Italy, in June 1999. The eight lectures on monomial ideals given there by Bernd Sturmfels were later written up by Ezra Miller and David Perkinson and published in [MP01]. We felt it would be nice to add more material and turn the COCOA notes into a real book. What you hold in your hand is the result, with Part I being a direct outgrowth of the COCOA notes. Combinatorial commutative algebra is a broad area of mathematics, and one can cover but a small selection of the possible topics in a single book. Our choices were motivated by our research interests and by our desire to reach a wide audience of students and researchers...
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...The Cartesian Plane Before the end of the European Renaissance, math was cleanly divided into the two separate subjects of geometry and algebra. You didn't use algebraic equations in geometry, and you didn't draw any pictures in algebra. Then, around 1637, a French guy named René Descartes (pronounced "ray-NAY day-CART") came up with a way to put these two subjects together. Rene Descartes was born on March 31, 1596, in Touraine, France. He was entered into Jesuit College at the age of eight, where he studied for about eight years. Although he studied the classics, logic and philosophy, Descartes only found mathematics to be satisfactory in reaching the truth of the science of nature. He then received a law degree in 1616. Thereafter, Descartes chose to join the army and served from 1617-1621. Descartes resigned from the army and traveled extensively for five years. During this period, he continued studying pure mathematics. Finally, in 1628, he devoted his life to seeking the truth about the science of nature. At that point, he moved to Holland and remained there for twenty years, dedicating his time to philosophy and mathematics. During this time, Descartes had his work "Meditations on First Philosophy" published. It was in this work that he introduced the famous phrase "I think, therefore I am." Descartes hoped to use this statement to find truth by the use of reason. He sought to take complex ideas and break them down into simpler ones that were clear...
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...Rosa Mingo 10/ 15/15 Ms. White Alexander Grothendieck One of the foremost mathematicians of 20th century, Alexander Grothendieck is a pioneer of modern algebraic geometry. His contributions to algebraic geometry, homological algebra and functional analysis are so huge and vast, that it antagonized even his most ardent followers who envied him for his achievements. His genius was honored by ‘Fields medal’ and the Crawford prize though he refused both on ethical grounds. During his long career in the Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies in Paris, his biggest achievements were not only his theorems and concepts, but also a huge bunch of students and a strong school of thought that, helped him come up with groundbreaking theories in mathematics. The world owes a great deal to this great French mathematician for the increased generalization and formalization of mathematics in 20th century. Though leading a secluded life since his retirement in 1988, Grothendieck’s achievements are well remembered and acknowledged by the mathematical community even now. Alexander Grothendieck was born on March 28, 1928 in Berlin to Russian-born, Jewish father, Alexander Sasha Shapiro, and German protestant mother, Johanna Hanka Grothendieck. Alexander Grothendieck was born out of wedlock, though the couple stayed together all their lives. Grothendieck’s mother was briefly married to a German journalist, Johannes Raddatz and hence, his birth name was Alexander Raddatz. Grothendieck lived...
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...22 August 2014 09.30 – 11.30 a.m DEGREE of MAcc ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE REPORTING (ACCFIN5002) Answer any TWO questions from FOUR Each question carries a 50% weighting of the exam assessment EXAMINATION INSTRUCTION: No candidate shall leave until an Invigilator has collected, and recorded receipt of, the candidates’ scripts. Invigilators will require candidates to remain during the first hour and last half-hour of an examination to avoid disturbing others. Students are allowed to use calculators that have standard arithmetic, scientific, graphical or algebraic functions provided that they are NOT programmable and can NOT store text (other than algebraic notation). Students are NOT allowed to use multifunction devices, for example electronic organisers, PDAs or mobile phones, which include calculator functions. Exam papers must NOT be removed by candidates at the end of the exam. 1 1. Outline and explain the research which has been undertaken to measure the impact of transition from national GAAP to IFRS. Discuss the extent to which such research is beneficial, given the current moves towards convergence of global financial reporting standards. TOTAL (50%) 2. Discuss the extent to which the type of political and economic system of a country has an influence on (i) accounting regulatory system (ii) accounting measurement rules (iii) accounting disclosure rules (iv) voluntary disclosure of accounting information by companies. ...
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...power represents the number of times the base is used as a factor. For a number raised to the first a power you do not usually write the exponent 21 usually simply as 2. Example One: Evaluating Powers A.) ( -3 )4 = ( -3 ) · ( -3 ) · ( -3 ) · ( -3 ) = 81 B.) -34 = - ( 3 · 3 · 3 · 3) = -81 * Order of Operations * First, do operations that occur within grouping symbols * Next, evaluate powers * Then, do multiplications and divisions from left to right * Finally, do additions and subtractions from left to right Example Two: Using Order of Operations -4 = 2 ( -2 + 5 )2 = -4 + 2(3)2 Add with Parenthesis = -4 + 2(9) Evaluate Power =-4 = 18 Multiply = 14 Add A variable is a letter that is used to represent one or more numbers. Any number used to replace a variable is a value of the variable and expressions involving variables is called an algebraic expression. When the variables in algebraic expression are replaced by numbers, you are evaluating the expression, and the result is called the value of the expression. To evaluating algebraic expression use the following flow chart. Simplify Simplify Write algebraic expression Write algebraic expression Substitute values of variables Substitute values of variables Example Three: Evaluating and Algebraic Expression Evaluate...
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...expressions using order of operations. Expressions/ Operations 5.7 evaluate whole number numerical expressions using order of operations, limited to parentheses, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division 6.8 evaluate whole number numerical expressions using order of operations 7.13 a) write verbal expressions as algebraic expressions and sentences as equations and vice versa; b) evaluate algebraic expressions 8.1 a)...
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