Now that the acid has been standardized and you know it is 0.2496 M H2SO4, you perform the actual experiment as follows:
A 3.100-g sample of meat is subjected to Kjeldahl analysis. The
liberated NH3(g) is absorbed by adding 50.00 mL of H2SO4(aq), which
is more than enough. The excess acid requires 19.90 mL of 0.5510 M
NaOH for its complete neutralization.
What is the percentage of protein in the meat?
In: Chemistry
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Derrick Iverson is a divisional manager for Holston Company. His annual pay raises are largely determined by his division’s return on investment (ROI), which has been above 20% each of the last three years. Derrick is considering a capital budgeting project that would require a $4,140,000 investment in equipment with a useful life of five years and no salvage value. Holston Company’s discount rate is 16%. The project would provide net operating income each year for five years as follows: |
| Sales | $ | 3,400,000 | |
| Variable expenses | 1,450,000 | ||
| Contribution margin | 1,950,000 | ||
| Fixed expenses: | |||
| Advertising, salaries, and other
fixed out-of-pocket costs |
$670,000 | ||
| Depreciation | 670,000 | ||
| Total fixed expenses | 1,340,000 | ||
| Net operating income | $ | 610,000 | |
|
Click here to view Exhibit 11B-1 and Exhibit 11B-2, to determine the appropriate discount factor(s) using tables. |
| Required: |
| 1. |
Compute the project's net present value. (Use the appropriate table to determine the discount factor(s), intermediate calculations and final answer to the nearest dollar amount.) |
| 2. |
Compute the project's simple rate of return. (Round your answer to 1 decimal place. i.e. 0.123 should be considered as 12.3%.) |
| 3-a. | Would the company want Derrick to pursue this investment opportunity? | ||||
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| 3-b. | Would Derrick be inclined to pursue this investment opportunity? | ||||
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In: Accounting
Lon Timur is an accounting major at a midwestern state university located approximately 60 miles from a major city. Many of the students attending the university are from the metropolitan area and visit their homes regularly on the weekends. Lon, an entrepreneur at heart, realizes that few good commuting alternatives are available for students doing weekend travel. He believes that a weekend commuting service could be organized and run profitably from several suburban and downtown shopping mall locations. Lon has gathered the following investment information.
| 1. | Five used vans would cost a total of $75,300 to purchase and would have a 3-year useful life with negligible salvage value. Lon plans to use straight-line depreciation. | |
| 2. | Ten drivers would have to be employed at a total payroll expense of $47,990. | |
| 3. | Other annual out-of-pocket expenses associated with running the commuter service would include Gasoline $15,990, Maintenance $3,310, Repairs $4,000, Insurance $4,200, and Advertising $2,510. | |
| 4. | Lon has visited several financial institutions to discuss funding. The best interest rate he has been able to negotiate is 15%. Use this rate for cost of capital. | |
| 5. | Lon expects each van to make ten round trips weekly and carry an average of six students each trip. The service is expected to operate 30 weeks each year, and each student will be charged $12.05 for a round-trip ticket. |
(a)
Determine the annual (1) net income and (2) net annual cash flows
for the commuter service. (Round answers to 0 decimal
places, e.g. 125.)
| Net income | $ ?????? | |
| Net annual cash flows | $ ?????? |
(b)
Compute (1) the cash payback period and (2) the annual rate of
return. (Round answers to 2 decimal places, e.g.
10.50.)
| Cash payback period | ???? years | ||
| Annual rate of return | ???? % |
(c)
Compute the net present value of the commuter service.
(Round answer to 0 decimal places, e.g. 125. If the net
present value is negative, use either a negative sign preceding the
number eg -45 or parentheses eg (45). For
calculation purposes, use 5 decimal places as displayed in the
factor table provided.)
| Net present value | ? |
In: Accounting
Write a JAVAprogram that reads a word and prints all its substrings, sorted by length. It then generates a random index between 0 and the length of the entered word, and prints out the character at that index.
For example, if the user provides the input "rum", the program
prints
r
u
m
ru
um
rum
The random index generated is 1. The character at index 2 is u.
In: Computer Science
Richard is asked to perform a hypothesis test to determine whether the mean resistance of pyrite from a particular site is 2 Ohms (Ω). Richard collects 50 samples, and obtains a sample mean of 1.8 Ohms and a standard deviation of 0.6 Ohms. He then constructs the following hypotheses:
H0 : x ̄ = 2.0Ω H1 : x ̄ ̸= 2.0Ω
and concludes that, since x ̄ = 1.8 is not equal to 2.0, we should reject the null hypothesis. Explain why Richard’s reasoning is incorrect, and explain what we actually need to do to correctly perform a hypothesis test for this experiment.
In: Math
An ideal heat engine takes in heat from a reservoir at 330 °C and has an efficiency of 31%. If the exhaust temperature does not vary and the efficiency is increased to 42%, what would be the increase in the temperature of the hot reservoir?
In: Physics
In: Accounting
In: Accounting
Stack and Queue
In this question, you will implement a modified version of stackArray class. This modified class requires you to:
• Implement two stacks using a single array. One stack uses the beginning of the array and the other uses the other end.
• Your code should allowing pushes to and pops from each stack by passing the 0 and 1 to any function to identify the needed stack.
• All stack functions should be be applied on both stack. For example, print(0) will print the content of the first stack while print(1) will print the other stack.
• Your stack should contain the following functions at least: isEmpty, isFull, push, pop, top, clear, print and getsize.
• The capacity of the array may be grow depending on the sum of number of objects stored in the two stacks.
• Moreover, the capacity maybe reduced to the half of the current capacity if the number of objects remaining in the two stacks (after each pop) is 1/4 the capacity of the array or less. The capacity of the array may not be reduced below the initially specified capacity.
using C++
this is the stack array code
#define DEFAULT_CAPACITY 10000
template <class T> class StackArray{
public:
StackArray(int capacity = DEFAULT_CAPACITY);
~StackArray();
void push(T& val);
T pop(void);
T top(void);
bool isEmpty(void);
bool isFull(void);
void clear(void);
private:
T* data;
int capacity, last;
};
template <class T>
StackArray<T>::StackArray(int cap){
capacity = cap;
data = new T[capacity];
last = -1;
}
template <class T>
StackArray<T>::~StackArray(void){
delete [] data;
}
template <class T>
void StackArray<T>::push(T& el)
{
if(isFull() )
{
printf("\n Can't push into a full
stack!");
return;
}
last++;
data[last] = el;
}
template <class T>
T StackArray<T>::pop()
{
if(isEmpty() )
{
printf("\n Can't pop from an empty
stack!");
return -1;
}
T el = data[last];
last--;
return el;
}
template <class T>
T StackArray<T>::top()
{
if(!isEmpty() )
{
printf("\n Stack is empty!");
return -1;
}
return data[last];
}
template <class T>
bool StackArray<T>::isEmpty(void)
{
return last == -1;
}
template <class T>
bool StackArray<T>::isFull(void)
{
return last+1 == capacity;
}
template <class T>
void StackArray<T>::clear(void)
{
last = -1;
}
In: Computer Science
1) What is the major purpose of controls in research?
A. to counteract threats to validity
B. to generate initial ideas
C. to produce research hypothesis when combined with problem statement
D. to increase participants willingness to participate
2) To double-blind control procedure involves
A. Having the experimenter's assistant sand the experimenter both blind to the hypothesis
B. Having both the experimenter and the participant blind to the assignment of each participant
C Having all participants blind to both the hypothesis and the assignment
D. None of the above
3)Extremely high control in laboratory setting
A. is crucial in case studies
B. is always accomplished
C. may lead to diminished external validity
D. is not useful
4) which of the following is a major control for order effects?
A. holding the variable constant
B. counterbalancing
C. including the factor as a research variable
D. random assignment of participants
In: Psychology
Why is it important to measure the solutions from least concentrated to most concentrated in UV-Vis Spectroscopy?
In: Chemistry
Discuss the relevance of any four managerial functions of the Teacher- In- Charge (TIC) in an infant school( 40 marks) 3 pages Childhood
In: Operations Management
Sketch a simple pendulum displaced at a small angle. Draw and label all forces acting on the mass. Resolve the component of gravity in the direction of motion. Use Newton's 2nd law to write the dynamic equation that predicts the acceleration of the mass.
Why must the angle be kept small? (Here, it's asking about the experiment with a pendulum that I just did and why the angle had to be kept smaller than 10 degrees)
In: Physics
The four methods needed for the assignment are specified in the Main class. Include a documentation comment with proper annotations for each of these four methods. Keep in mind that all four methods will be static and void. Additionally, there should be no throws clauses for any of the methods of this program. All exceptions should be properly handled with try-catch blocks. Refer to the following directions for each of the makeFile,readFile, writeFile, and deleteFile methods, respectively:
●Use the createNewFile() method of Java’s File class to add files to a subdirectory (folder)within the project directory. Let the user know if the file was successfully created or if anything goes wrong during the file creation process.
●Read from files using the Scanner class. Be sure to properly handle any exceptions inthe event that the file cannot be found or that the contents of the file cannot be read.Print the contents of the file to the console.
●Write to files using a combination of the FileWriter and PrintWriter classes. New content should be appended to the file rather than overwriting the current contents. Check that the file exists and throw an exception if it does not; do not rely on the PrintWriter class to create a new file to write to. Be sure to properly handle any exceptions in the event that the file cannot be found or that content cannot be written to the file.
●Use the delete() method of Java’s File class to delete files from the subdirectory. Let the user know if the file was successfully deleted or if anything goes wrong during the file deletion process.
The program used is Java script and requires two classes for the project, one- Main class and the second- FileHandler class. the File handler class should be able to create, read, write, and delete files.
public class Main
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
Scanner keyboard = new
Scanner(System.in); // Scanner object to read user
input
String fileName = "";
// The name of a file to
perform actions on
String content = "";
// Content to be written to a
file
String line = "";
// An
individual line of content
int choice = -1;
// User's
selection
while (choice != 5)
{
System.out.println("1. Create a file\n2. Read from a file\n3. Write
to a file\n" +
"4. Delete a file\n5. Exit the program");
System.out.print("Please enter the number of your selection:
");
choice =
keyboard.nextInt();
keyboard.nextLine();
switch
(choice)
{
// Create a new file
case 1:
System.out.print("Please
enter the name of the new file: ");
fileName =
keyboard.nextLine();
FileHandler.makeFile(fileName);
break;
// Read from a file
case 2:
System.out.print("Please
enter the name of the file to read: ");
fileName =
keyboard.nextLine();
FileHandler.readFile(fileName);
break;
// Write to a file
case 3:
System.out.print("Please
enter the name of the file to write to: ");
fileName =
keyboard.nextLine();
line = "";
do
{
System.out.print("Please enter content to be added to the file
('end' to stop): ");
line =
keyboard.nextLine();
if
(!line.equals("end"))
content += line + "\n";
} while
(!line.equals("end"));
FileHandler.writeFile(fileName, content);
break;
// Delete a file
case 4:
System.out.print("Please
enter the name of the file to delete: ");
fileName =
keyboard.nextLine();
FileHandler.deleteFile(fileName);
break;
// Exit the program
case 5:
break;
// Warning for invalid input
default:
System.out.println("Please
enter a number from 1-5");
}
}
}
}
In: Computer Science
In 2004 astronomers reported the discovery of a large Jupiter-sized planet orbiting very close to the star HD 179949 (hence the term "hot Jupiter"). The orbit was just 19 the distance of Mercury from our sun, and it takes the planet only 3.09 days to make one orbit (assumed to be circular).
What is the mass of the star in kilograms?
(b) as a multiple of our sun's mass.
(c) How fast (in km/s) is this planet moving?
In: Physics