Aol, llc, mistakenly made public the personal information of 650,000 of its members. the members filed a suit in california, alleging violations of federal law and california state law. the member agreement between aol and its members included a provision declaring virginia as the location of any court dispute. aol asked the court to dismiss the suit on the basis of that "forum-selection" clause in its member agreement. under a previous decision of the united states supreme court, a forum-selection clause is unenforceable "if enforcement would contravene a strong public policy of the forum in which suit is brought." california courts previously have declared in other cases that clauses similar to the aol clause contravene a strong public policy.

Evelyn would like to open a small business that is categorized as a being in the distribution industry. to do this she could open a establishment.

Companies in the u.s. car rental market vary greatly in terms of the size of the fleet, the number of locations, and annual revenue. in 2011 hertz had 320,000 cars in service and annual revenue of approximately $4.2 billion. the following data show the number of cars in service (1000s) and the annual revenue ($ millions) for six smaller car rental companies (auto rental news website, august 7, 2012). excel file: data14-09.xls if required, enter negative values as negative numbers. a. select a scatter diagram with the number of cars in service as the independent variable. b. what does the scatter diagram developed in part (a) indicate about the relationship between the two variables? c. use the least squares method to develop the estimated regression equation (to 3 decimals). ŷ = + x d. for every additional car placed in service, estimate how much annual revenue will change. by $ e. fox rent a car has 11,000 cars in service. use the estimated regression equation developed in part (c) to predict annual revenue for fox rent a car. round your answer to nearest whole value. $ million hide feedback partially correct

(a) what do you think will happen if the price of non-gm crops continues to rise? why? (b) what will happen if the price of non-gm food drops? why?