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    help figuring out calculations. One of the men was married to a woman named Barbara Cartwright. She was really good at numbers. Barbara Cartwright calculated speed, Trajectory, combustion among many other things that helped with rocket and propellant development. Her findings helped out with future projects. As JPL continued the amount of women who calculated grew. Marcie Roberts, was in charge of the human computers. Marcie only hired women for the department. The women’s calculations helped…

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    is mindset. Hydration cannot be emphasized enough to runners. According to Runner’s World there is a calculation on how much water each individual should be drinking a day. The equation is different for males and females, for males the calculation is (bodyweight multiplied by .35). For females the calculation is (bodyweight multiplied by .31). After you get what that number is from the calculation that is the amount you should be drinking in ounces. Hydration is important because your body…

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    Park will break even by charging between $5.54 with allocated management costs and $6.09 with management costs included. 3. Program Shut Down Since the park manager desires to shut down some of the programs of Stratton Township Park, the calculations determined, in the program shut down a section of the spreadsheet (see Appendix D for detailed information), that all revenues associated with the program operations would be lost. All of the programs, with the exception of the Concerts,…

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    JEDR Report Conclusion

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    1. Condition Specifications There is a mistake in the calculation of the assumed wheel circumference. Based on the obtained data from JEDR report, the average wheel diameter is 406 mm and by using the circumference formula, 2πr, the result should be 1.275 m. However, JEDR report says the wheel circumference is 1.2 m. This number should be rounded up to 1.3 m instead of rounded down since this might give critical error in further calculations. The previous wheel circumference mistake will lead…

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    Does Race Exist Analysis

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    They use various calculations, including discriminant function analysis (DFA), principal components analysis (PCA) and KNN to “...maximize the differences among groups”, compare individuals within groups, and many other analyses with different combinations of variables which was very thorough. Afterwards, they repeat the calculations in a global scale and discovered that “within-continent analyses complicate the craniometric…

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    Figures. At one point in the preparation taking place at NASA before an astronomic journey, all of the people working through a calculation seemed to be stumped. This changed when an African-American woman contributing…

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    WACC Case Study

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    First, we found the equity beta by locating the market returns for both IBM and the S&P 500 from 2005 to 2014. We chose to go all the way back to 2005 to reflect both good and bad times in the market in our calculations. Equity beta is calculated by taking the covariance of the change in percentages for IBM and the S&P and dividing it by the variance in the percentage change in the S&P. Equity beta, also known as “levered beta” is the beta of the firm with financial…

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    Stoichiometry

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    And in the other side, if you has a desired amount of product want, you can use stoichiometry to predict of on how much reactant you will need to carry on the reaction. Stoichiometry can definitely be named the center of many if not most of the calculations executed in chemistry. There is a number of compounds that contain oxygen that can be decomposed by exposing the compound to heat. An example is potassium chlorate (KClO3), it can be heated up and as a result the oxygen that was in the…

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    considered to be calculated risk taking. The author Kathleen Reardon likes to define being able to have clear understanding of an intelligent gamble as courage calculation. She states the meaning as “a method of making success more likely while avoiding rash, unproductive, or irrational behavior” (Reardon, 2007, p.60). The process of courage calculation is broken down into six components and these processes can help an individual professionally develop as well as be used in career planning.…

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    amount of hen-days in the period by counting the number of hens alive per day of the period, then the same is done for the eggs in the same period (Agritech, n.d.). To calculate the hen day egg production for a day or a longer period the following calculations can be…

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