The _____________ was a series of state laws and party rules that denied African Americans the right to vote in the Democratic primary in Texas in the first half of the twentieth century.

Powers not mentioned specifically in the Constitution as belonging to the national government but inferred from those that are enumerated are called

A jigsaw puzzle consists of straight edged (including the four corners) and non-straight edged pieces.  When a jigsaw piece is randomly selected from the box, there is about a 12% chance of selecting a straight edged piece.  You take a simple random sample of 6 jigsaw pieces from the box.  Let X = the number of pieces that have a straight edge.  The distribution of X is binomial with n = 6 and p = 0.12.   a. How would you write the distribution of X using symbols?   b. What is the sample space of this distribution?   c. What is the probability of getting 2 or 3 straight edged pieces from the 6 randomly selected pieces?  

The Hispanic population in Texas has increased because of

The _____ can confirm or reject the hundreds of appointees to state boards and commissions that administer public programs.

The numerous opportunities to vote in Texas leads to

From the perspective of sociology, myths are all of the following EXCEPT

A company has the following standards for manufacturing one unit of its product:•Direct Materials: 60 pounds at $1.50 per pound•Direct Labor: 3 hours at $12 per hour During May, the company had budgeted to produce 1,800 units of its product, but actually only produced 1,650 units.  The following data relate to actual outcomes from May:•The company purchased 114,000 pounds of materials for $188,100. They used all 114,000 pounds of materials in production.•Total direct labor cost amounted to $56,265 for the 5,115 direct labor hours incurred during May. What is the company’s direct materials quantity variance for May?

Calculate the concentration of bicarbonate ion, HCO3-, in a 0.030 M H2CO3 solution that has the stepwise dissociation constants Ka1 = 4.3 × 10-7 and Ka2 = 5.6 × 10-11.   For the last few problems, partial credit is available if you email me your work immediately after submission.

Suppose a company uses process costing. For the month of August, Department A has zero units in beginning work in process inventory. During August, 300 units of the company’s product are started by Department A. At the end of August, 200 of the units were completed and transferred to Department B; the other 100 units were fully processed with respect to direct materials and were, on average, 30% processed for conversion costs. During August, Department A incurred direct materials costs of $27,000, and conversion costs of $57,500. For Department A, what is the total amount of cost assigned to the units that were in ending work in process inventory at the end of August?