Marketing Promotion Campaign

Thinking as a Brand Manager, to create a creative brief for a campaign to launch a new product of our choice to give it to creative agency.

7. In an American Animal Hospital Association survey, 37% of respondents stated that they talked to their pets on the telephone. A veterinarian found this result hard to believe, so he randomly selected 150 pet owners and discovered that 54 of them spoke to their pet on the telephone. At 0.05 significant level, test the result stated by the American Animal Hospital Association.

8. With a random sample 1026 adult Americans, 534 stated the amount of federal tax they have to pay is too high. Use 0.01 significant level to test the claim that at least half of Americans say federal tax is too high.

Calculate the standard Gibbs free energy and equilibrium constant for the oxidation of Fe2+ to Fe3+ by Cr2O72- (a common redox titration method to determine iron.) The half-cell equations that you will need are balanced, on the table of standard reduction potentials.

The Social Security System in the US has been successful so far in terms of reducing poverty among the retirees. However, there is concern that the system may become unsustainable in future. There is a proposal to change the system from its current setup of ‘pay-as-you-go’ to a ‘fully-funded system’, wherein the latter case workers contributions will be invested in financial assets (aka in stocks, bonds etc., managed by private fund managers) and workers will be repaid back with the principal and interest when they retire.

Discuss the potential benefits and costs of the proposed solution relative to the existing system.

A mixture initially contains A, B, and C in the following concentrations: [A] = 0.300 M , [B] = 1.40 M , and [C] = 0.700 M . The following reaction occurs and equilibrium is established: A+2B⇌C At equilibrium, [A] = 0.140 M and [C] = 0.860 M . Calculate the value of the equilibrium constant, Kc.

Hartford Research issues bonds dated January 1, 2017, that pay interest semiannually on June 30 and December 31. The bonds have a $40,000 par value and an annual contract rate of 10%, and they mature in 10 years. (Table B.1, Table B.2, Table B.3, and Table B.4) (Use appropriate factor(s) from the tables provided. Round all table values to 4 decimal places, and use the rounded table values in calculations. Round your 'Present Value' answers to the nearest whole dollar.) Required: Consider each of the following three separate situations. 1. The market rate at the date of issuance is 8%. (a) Complete the below table to determine the bonds' issue price on January 1, 2017. (b) Prepare the journal entry to record their issuance. 2. The market rate at the date of issuance is 10%. (a) Complete the below table to determine the bonds' issue price on January 1, 2017. (b) Prepare the journal entry to record their issuance. 3. The market rate at the date of issuance is 12%. (a) Complete the below table to determine the bonds' issue price on January 1, 2017. (b) Prepare the journal entry to record their issuance.

Describe the physics and draw an illustration of charge polarization.

QUESTION 3

a) A steam power plant operates on an ideal reheat-regenerative Rankine cycle. Steam

enters the high-pressure turbine (HPT) at a pressure of 10 MPa and temperature of

550oC. The steam expands through the HPT stage to a pressure of 0.6 MPa. Some of

the steam at the end of the expansion process in HPT is extracted for a regeneration

process in a closed-type feedwater heater. The steam leaves the heater as a saturated

liquid and then is throttled to the condenser pressure of 10 kPa. The remaining steam at

the end of HPT is reheated at constant pressure of 0.6 MPa to a temperature of 500oC

before entering the low-pressure turbine (LPT). The steam finally expands through the

LPT to the condenser pressure of 10 kPa. The water leaves the condenser as a saturated

liquid. The feedwater in the heater is preheated to saturation temperature of the reheat

pressure. The plant produces a net power output of 115 MW.

i. Show the cycle on a temperature-entropy (T-s) diagram.

ii. Determine the mass fraction of the extracted steam.

iii. Calculate the mass flow rate of the steam, kg/s.

iv. Compute the thermal efficiency, %.

A physics student who is also a pilot is preparing to fly from the Daydon airport home to Kalona Iowa which is due west. Her plane flies with an airspeed (its speed relative to the air) of 106 knots. There is a strong wind blowing at 25 knots coming from the Northwest.

a. What heading should she fly? In other words, what direction should she aim the plane as she flies if she wants to go directly to Kalona? (In degrees North of due West.)

b. What will her ground speed be?

Calculate the annual lease payments due from the lessor, and prepare lease amortization schedule, for each of the following scenarios:

Scenario                                                                                      A                          B                         C

Lease Term                                                                         10 Years               20 Years               4 Year

Fair Value of Lease Asset                                              $600,000             $900,000             $200,000

Lesse's Incremental Borrowing Rate                                         12%              10%                    10%

Lessor's Rate of Return (known by lessee)                             11%                  9%                    12%

Payment Due                                                                     End of Year            End of Year         End of Year

Lab background:

I set up two styrofoam cups attached together by an aluminum transfer bar (a conductor). One cup contained 200g of boiling water, while the other cup contained only 100g of ice water. Every two minutes, I took the temperature of both the cups. There were two slits on the top of the enclosed styrofoam cups to allow a thermometer to take the temperature of both of the contents in the two cups. It seems as though, the hot water LOST heat nearly twice as fast as the cold water gained heat.

Question 1: Why did this happen??? Does it have to do with the different volumes/ surface area?

Question 2: I later calculated the heat lost by the hot water and the heat gained by the cold water (which, technically, should be the same consiering the laws of thermodynamics). Heat lost= 27720 J and heat gained= 11340 J. So they are clearly not the same ... what 2 reasons could cause the difference???

Questions 3: How do I estimate at which both containers should stabilize???

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“I’m not sure we should lay out $345,000 for that automated welding machine,” said Jim Alder, president of the Superior Equipment Company. “That’s a lot of money, and it would cost us $93,000 for software and installation, and another $58,800 per year just to maintain the thing. In addition, the manufacturer admits it would cost $56,000 more at the end of three years to replace worn-out parts.”

“I admit it’s a lot of money,” said Franci Rogers, the controller. “But you know the turnover problem we’ve had with the welding crew. This machine would replace six welders at a cost savings of $123,000 per year. And we would save another $8,400 per year in reduced material waste. When you figure that the automated welder would last for six years, I’m sure the return would be greater than our 14% required rate of return.”

“I’m still not convinced,” countered Mr. Alder. “We can only get $21,500 scrap value out of our old welding equipment if we sell it now, and in six years the new machine will only be worth $39,000 for parts. But have your people work up the figures and we’ll talk about them at the executive committee meeting tomorrow.”

Click here to view Exhibit 13B-1 and Exhibit 13B-2, to determine the appropriate discount factor(s) using tables.

Required:

1. Compute the annual net cost savings promised by the automated welding machine.

2a. Using the data from (1) above and other data from the problem, compute the automated welding machine’s net present value.

2b. Would you recommend purchasing the automated welding machine?

3. Assume that management can identify several intangible benefits associated with the automated welding machine, including greater flexibility in shifting from one type of product to another, improved quality of output, and faster delivery as a result of reduced throughput time. What minimum dollar value per year would management have to attach to these intangible benefits in order to make the new welding machine an acceptable investment?

Explain at least one practical value of classifying an organization's total costs into direct and indirect costs.

Consider the following code. Explain what this code does and determine the output. Let us discuss.

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int top;
void check (char str[ ], int n, char stack [ ])
{
for(int i = 0 ; i < n ; i++ )
{
if (str [ i ] == ‘(’)
{
top = top + 1;
stack[ top ] = ‘ ( ’;
}
if(str[ i ] == ‘)’ )
{
if(top == -1 )
{
top = top -1 ;
break ;
}
else
{
top = top -1 ;
}
}
}
if(top == -1)
cout << “String is balanced!” << endl;
else
cout << “String is unbalanced!” << endl ;
}

int main ( )
{

char str[ ] = { ‘(‘ , ‘a’ , ‘+’, ‘ ( ’, ‘b ’ , ‘-’ , ‘ c’ ,‘)’ , ‘ ) ’} ;

char str1 [ ] = { ‘(’ , ‘(’ , ‘a’ , ‘ + ’ , ‘ b’ , ‘)’ } ;
char stack [ 15 ] ;
top = -1;
check (str , 9 , stack ); //Passing balanced string
top = -1 ;
check(str1 , 5 , stack) ; //Passing unbalanced string

}