II. Change in labor productivity is one of the most watched international statistics of growth. Visit the St. Louis Federal Reserve website and find the data section (http://research. Stlouisfed. Org). Find international comparisons of labor productivity, listed under the FRED Economic database (Growth Rate of Total Labor Productivity), and compare two countries in the recent past. State what you think the reasons for differences in labor productivity could be.

Write the point-slope form of the line passing through (2, -12) and parallel to y=3x.

At river bank, checking account customers earn 0.75% interest a month on their account balances, pay no service fees for writing checks, and pay a monthly $2.00 financial charge. calculate the income earned in one month on the checking account for a customer with an account balance of $1,000. a. $4.25 b. $5.50 c. $6.75 d. $7.25 checking account earnings at baker’s bank are expressed by the equation: i = -0.09x + 10.2. while the earnings at elite bank are modeled by: i = -0.02x + 7.5. in both cases, x is the number of checks written. at what number of checks will elite bank start generating more checking account income than baker's bank? a. 12 b. 25 c. 39 d. 42 emilio’s checking account had a balance of 728.32 at the beginning of the week. he wrote checks for the following amounts throughout the week: $99.48, $33.50, $18.23, and $72.05. he also deposited his paycheck in the amount of $1,109.90. what is his account balance at the end of the week? a. $1,192.35 b. $1,222.86 c. $1,540.52 d. $1,614.96

Aspacecraft can attain a stable orbit 300 kilometers above earth if it reaches a velocity of 7.7 kilometers per second. the formula for a rocket's maximum velocity v in kilometers per second is vequalsminus0.0098tplusc ln upper r, where t is the firing time in seconds, c is the velocity of the exhaust in kilometers per second, and r is the ratio of the mass of the rocket filled with fuel to the mass of the rocket without fuel. find the velocity of a spacecraft whose booster rocket has a mass ratio of 20, an exhaust velocity of 2.1 km/s, and a firing time of 15 s. can the spacecraft achieve a stable orbit 300 km above earth?