The futures price of gold is $1,000. Futures contracts are for 100 ounces of gold, and the margin requirement is $3,000 a contract. The maintenance market requirement is $1,500. A speculator expects the price of gold to rise and enters into a contract to buy gold. If the futures price of gold rises to $1,005, what is the return on the position

employers prefer to hire ingenious, resourceful people because ingenious people may be more liable to engage in unethical deportment as they can cerebrate outside of the box

there's 11 people for the 1st position. then, no matter who gets it, there's only 10 left for the second, and then 9 left for the third. 11 x 10 x 9 = 990.   the answer is there are 990 different ways the positions can be filled by these applicants

answer(d) encourage cooperation by improving the chances of mutually agreeable transactions;

answer (b); /// a method of measuring the opinions of a large group of people by selecting a subset of the larger group, asking them a set of questions and then generalizing those responses;