Exercise 5.1 & 5.2

5.1
2)Our report will highlight the components of Abco's profitability, in particular, the growth in the Asian markets, to demonstrate our advantages over competitors. The analysis is based upon revenue returns along several dimensions-product type, end-use, distribution channels, etc. We project that the most likely growth prospects of Abco's newest product lines will depend most on its ability in regard to the development of distribution channels in China. The introduction of new products must be supported by a range of innovative strategies.

5.2
1)Vegetation covers the earth, except for those areas continuously covered with ice or utterly scorched by continual heat. Plants flourish most in richly fertilized plains and river valleys, but they also do so at the edge of perpetual snow in high mountains. Dense vegetation occurs at the ocean and its edges, or in and around lakes and swamps. Plants even grow in cracks of busy city sidewalks as well as in seemingly barren cliffs. Vegetation has covered the earth before humans existed, and it will cover the earth long after evolutionary history swallows us up.

2)In their natural state, animals do not have the power to create and communicate new messages to fit new experiences. Their genetic code limits the number and kind of messages that they can communicate. For example, bees can only communicate information about distance, direction, source, and richness of pollen in flowers. Generation after generation, animals of the same species can only have a limited number of messages delivered in the same way.

3) The importance of language skills in children's problem solving ability was stressed by Jones (1985) in his paper of children's thinking. Improvements in language skills were reported to have resulted in improvements in non-verbal problem solving. Previously acquired language habits and knowledge learned through language are thought to be the cause of better performance. Therefore, verbal formulations of nonlinguistic problems could aid children in problem solving in general.