Wheelan explains that there are four functions for all "financial instruments": raising capital; storing, protecting, and making profitable use of excess capital; insuring against risk, and speculation. Project yourself two decades into the future, and assume that you are in a good, but not great, financial situation, maybe with a family. Prioritize these four functions in terms of how you would anticipate using "financial instruments" at that point in your life. Explain why you ordered them that way.

On analyzing her company’s goods transport route, simone found that they could reduce transport costs by a quarter if they merged different transport routes. what role (job) does simone play at her company? simone is at her company.

The state in which the manufacturing company you work for is located regulates the presence of a particular substance in the environment to concentrations ≤ x. recently-released, reliable research endorsed by the responsible federal agency conclusively demonstrates that the substance poses no risks at concentrations up to 5x. your company has asked you to consider designing a new process with a waste discharge stream containing up to 2x of the substance. based on the stated conditions, describe this possible.

In terms of the "great wheel of science", statistics are central to the research process (a) only between the hypothesis phase and the observation phase (b) only between the observation phase and the empirical generalization phase (c) only between the theory phase and the hypothesis phase (d) only between the empirical generalization phase and the theory phase