Andrea is a hardworking student who gets excellent grades. She plays softball and volunteers at a shelter. She was accepted to her first choice of university, but her family can’t afford the tuition.
Nick is a hardworking student who gets excellent grades. He volunteered in a science lab in high school. However, he scored one point less than is required on the entrance exam for admission to his first-choice university. If he had scored one point higher, the university would have accepted him and the government would have paid for his education.
Part A
What issues do Andrea and Nick face?

Find the zeros of the polynomial 5 x square + 12 x + 7 by factorization method and verify the relation between zeros and coefficient of the polynomials

Activity-based costing (abc) is not truly a cost collection mechanism as much as it is an inventory valuation method. the main purpose for implementing an activity-based cost system is to try to overcome some of the cost distortions that occur in traditional costing from product differences when there are variations in size and complexity. however, one of the disadvantages of utilizing abc is that the additional information gathering necessary to implement costing with that level of detail might be beyond the reach of some companies with resource or financial constraints. with this in mind, what kinds of industries or companies do you think would benefit most from using activity-based costing and why? in designing or modifying an accounting system to capture appropriate costs for abc, what considerations do you think would need to be made?

Emerson has an associate degree. based on the bar chart below,how will his employment opportunities change from 2008 to 2018