Question 2

(i) Which one of the following statements is true?
A. Conflicts of interests between management and stakeholders can result in
bankruptcies or major frauds.
B. It is the responsibility of internal audit to design and monitor controls that reasonably
assure that objectives are met.
C. Corporate governance addresses the principal–agent relationship between
management and directors on the one hand and the relationship between the company
and suppliers on the other.
D. The management board approves the mission, vision, objectives and strategy of the
entity.

(ii) The agency theory stipulates that:
A. Self-interest plays no role and is irrelevant.
B. The management board is the agent.
C. The management board is the principal.
D. Information asymmetry is absent in corporate governance.

(iii) Which of the following is not something performed by the company’s board?
A. Day to day supervision of the sales manager.
B. Appoints the corporate officers responsible for managing the company and
implementing this strategy
C. Oversees management and ensures the quality of information provided to
shareholders and to financial markets through the financial statements.
D. Defines the company’s strategy.

(iv) What is meant by the ‘separation of ownership and control?’
A. That the owners of companies have become separated from those who control
companies.
B. That the law should seek to keep the owners and controllers of company apart in order
to avoid an over-concentration of power.
C. That owners and controllers of companies should not act in concert to defeat
resolutions.
D. That those who control the company should be separate to those who own it.

Select one:
a. A positive feedback loop is a control system that acts to maintain the level of some variation within a given range following a disturbance.
b. A positive feedback system is stable over time, maintaining a steady state.
c. Positive feedback occurs when a system moves from one set point to another. One type of positive feedback moves the control parameter to a value outside that normally maintained by negative feedback.
d. Step changes in a controlled variable will return the system to its original state using positive feedback.

Which one of the following statements is True?

1. The greater the Kurtosis of a distribution the less data in the wings of the distribution.
2. The greater the Coefficient of Variation the less uncertainty in the distribution.
3. The greater the magnitude (absolute value) of the Z Score of a data pointthe closer the data point is to the mean of the distribution.

1. For a Unimodal mound shaped distribution, the mean is closer to the median than to the mode.
2. The greater the Percentile of a data point in a distribution, the lesser is its Z Score.

Which one of the following statements is true concerning the magnitude of the electric field at a point in space?

1. Which one of the following statements is true?

2. The oscillatory motion of a simple pendulum is represented by… θ(t) = (0.15rad)cos(2.56t)
Which one of the following is closest to the length of the pendulum?

3. Which one of the following is not an example of resonance?

Which one of the following statements is False (not true)?

1. Events A and B are independent if and only if P(A and B) = P(A) x P(B).
2. Events A and B are independent if and only if P(A) = P(A given B).
3. O(A) x O(not A) = 1
4. Events A and B are independent if and only if A and B are mutually exclusive; that is disjoint.
5. If events A and B are mutually exclusive then, P (A or B) = P(A) + P(B).

Which one of the following statements about photoreception is true?

a. Light detection is initiated by the absorbance of light (a photon) by a photopigment molecule.

b. Light detection is synonomous with vision.

c. Light detection is always initiated in a rod photoreceptor located in the retina.

d. Only light in the visible range (between 400 and 700 nm wavelength) can be detected by animals.

e. None of the above answer choices (neither A, nor B, nor C, nor D) is true.

Which one of the following statements best reflects Sternberg’s theory of successful intelligence?

Question 3

Which one of the following statements best illustrates prior knowledge activation in a geometry lesson?

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1. Which one of the following statements best describes wait timeand its effects?

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Which one of the following statements is false?a. Blood pressure in the glomerular capillaries is greater than the osmotic pressure exerted by proteins in the plasma within the glomerular capillaries.b. If the osmotic pressure exerted by solutes in the peritubular capillaries is greater than the blood pressure in those capillaries, then water will be reabsorbed.c. Endothelial cells in glomerular capillaries are highly permeable, facilitating filtration of fluid into Bowman’s capsule.d. Constriction of the afferent arteriole is likely to reduce the volume of filtrate appearing in Bowman’s capsule.e. The efferent arteriole carries blood from the glomerular capillaries directly to the renal vein.0.5 pointsQuestion 2Your doctor calls with the results of your urinalysis and tells you that they found proteinuria, the presence of abnormal amounts of protein in your urine sample. What could have caused this?a. Infection and inflammation in the kidney.b. Abnormally high concentration of plasma proteins.c. Abnormal active transport of protein in the loop of Henle.d. Abnormal active transport of protein in Bowman’s capsule.0.5 pointsQuestion 3Which one of the following statements about the nephron is false?a. Most of the Na+ and Cl- ions in the filtrate is reabsorbed in the distal tubule.b. The descending limb of the loop of Henle is permeable to water but the ascending limb is not.c. Antidiuretic hormone increases the permeability of the distal tubules and collecting ducts to water.d. So much salt (NaCl) is actively transported out of the thick ascending limb of the loop of Henle that fluid entering the distal tubule is actually hypoosmotic (more dilute) than normal body fluids.0.5 pointsQuestion 4Most of the water filtered from the glomerular capillaries into Bowman’s capsule is reabsorbed by…a. active transport out of the distal tubule.b. passive diffusion out of the proximal tubule.c. passive diffusion out of the inner part of the collecting duct.d. active transport out of the descending limb of the loop of Henle.e. passive diffusion out of the ascending limb of the loop of Henle.