Melanie, a homeowner, has mortgage interest of $3,000.00, real estate taxes of $1,500.00, and charitable contributions of $500.00. According to her filing status, a standard deduction of $5,950.00 is allowed. How much should Melanie deduct on her tax return?

Sony is an unusual market leader. It gives its customers new products that they have never asked for (e.g., Walkmans, VCRs, video cameras, CDs). This makes Sony a(n) ________ firm

A) market-driven B) market-driving C) operations-driven D) vision-driven E) virtually-driven

________ is a test statistic that measures the association between two ordinal-level variables. It makes an adjustment for ties and is most appropriate when the table of variables is not square but a rectangle

A) Tau b B) Symmetric lambda C) Tau c D) Gamma