1. What role do benefits play in Employee Relations? Does organized labor affect those benefits? What do you see as the key difference in between "right to work" and "closed shop" states?

2. An author has received an advance against royalties of $10,000. The royalty rate is $1.00 for every book sold in the United States, and $1.35 for every book sold outside the United States. Define variables for this problem and write an expression that could be used to calculate the number of books to be sold to cover the advance.