1. What is hard news? What is an example of a story that might be hard news? 2. What is a lead? What is it used for?
3. What is the inverted pyramid organization for a news story? What benefits does this method have?
4. What is the hourglass style of reporting? Why would a reporter use this style?
5. Identify and describe two forms of organizing information in a story (other than the inverted pyramid
and hourglass styles).

The vaska company buys a patent on january 1, year one, and agrees to pay $100,000 per year for the next five years. the first payment is made immediately, and the payments are made on each january 1 thereafter. if a reasonable annual interest rate is 8 percent, what is the recorded value of the patent? 1. $378,4252. $431,2133. $468,9504. $500,000

Cool beans is a locally owned coffee shop that competes with two large coffee chains, planeteuro and frothies. alicia, the owner, hired two students to count the number of customers that entered each of the coffee shops to estimate what percent of people who are interested in coffee are visiting each shop. after a week, the students found the following results: 589 visited cool beans, 839 visited planeteuro, and 1,290 visited frothies. the students were surprised that cool beans had 139 visits on monday which represented 59% of all people who visited one of the three coffee shops on mondays. how many people visited one of the three coffee shops during the week?

Which of the following entries would be made to record the requisition of $12,000 of direct materials and $6,900 of indirect materials? (assume that indirect materials are included in raw materials inventory.) a. manufacturing overhead 18,900 raw materials inventory 18,900 b. wip inventory 12,000 manufacturing overhead 6,900 raw materials inventory 18,900 c. raw materials inventory 18,900 wip inventory 18,900 d. wip inventory 18,900 raw materials inventory 18,900