The instructor's manual includes recommendations on approaches to meeting the chapters' learning objectives. It includes answers to review questions, thoughts on the discussion topics, and responses to the DSS Insights exercises. It also includes a large test bank of multiple choice and true/false problems is furnished. In preparing exams, these can supplement the review questions (which can be readily transformed into problems of the short answer or fill-in-the-blank variety) and the discussion topics (which can serve as essay problems).
WEIGHT LOSS: 50 pounds. Tom Hanks is no stranger to the art of transformation for a movie role. In 1992 he gained 30 pounds to play baseball coach Jimmy Dugan in A League of Their Own.. Then, a few years later, he lost 30 pounds for his Oscar-winning turn as AIDS patient Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia..
Bruno has a power-to-weight ratio of 2.6 pounds per watt, while Shorty has a slightly better power-to-weight ratio of 2.75 watts per pound. If Bruno was 218 pounds, then the two runners would be evenly matched. As it is, however, Shorty has the advantage.