John’s company signs a contract with the city of Monrovia, a town located in the U.S., to remove all of the gravel in a specific area. The city has performed their due diligence and has determined that the gravel should be removed and foresees no issues in doing so. After surveying the area himself and after accepting the contract, Hurricane Matthew comes into town and quickly leaves a large portion of the gravel underwater and removing it will cost the company 20 times more than was originally agreed to. The contract between John and the City has a provision stating that come Hell or Highwater, the contract is to be performed. Will there be any issues for John? For the City? Who should prevail if there is an issue of Non-performance? Refer to the theories in the chapter regarding Performance, Breach and Discharge.

Respond to and answer the following scenarios and questions:

A. In your own words, explain the concept of the multiplier.

B. Approximately 1,500 out-of-town epidemiologists attended their annual convention in June of 2017. It was the largest convention ever held in the city of Boise. The average amount spent by an out-of-town convention attendee is $280 dollars per day. Assume the convention lasts 3 days, and the marginal propensity to consume is .50. How much will businesses in Boise benefit from this conference?

C. The Army National Guard employs around 2,250 people in Idaho. Assume the average salary is $50,000. Also, assume the marginal propensity to consume is .50. What would be the economic impact of losing the Army National Guard?

For your initial post, think about crisis management such as one of the recent school shootings. You are on the school board. You have small children in the school system. Discuss how you would need to keep emotions out of the planning to avoid another school shooting. What types of things need to be addressed to keep emotions away from the creation of a plan?

(1) As a consequence of fertilizer runoff from heavy farming, nitrogen levels are increasing in local bodies of water. Two towns have taken competing approaches to deal with the problem, and you’ve been hired as a consultant to test whether either town has outperformed the other. (The goal is low N levels.) Here are the data, in the form of x1000mg/m3 .

What can you say?

Town A

average N conc 10.0

sample size 14

standard dev 2.075

Town B

average N conc 15

sample size 11

standard dev 2.449

(2)When lightning strikes, it increases CO2 in the atmosphere. (This can have serious effects on ozone levels.) But what if lightning strikes water? The amount of dissolved CO2 in the water might go down if it is released into the air… or maybe it goes up, due to the formation of nitrogen oxide. You traverse the rural Hudson Valley during thunderstorms and amass a collection of water samples from 25 ponds, collected just before and just after lightning strikes. You find that the average difference in dissolved CO2 is that there is 32ppm more after a strike, with a standard deviation of 70ppm. What do you conclude?

1. during the year ended december 31, 2012, the town of jamestown had the following selected transaction :

a. the general fund made a $100,000 advance to an internal service fund. the internal service fund will repay the advance in 2013.

b .the water utility enterprise fund billed the general fund $25,000 for water usage.

c. the general fund transferred $30,000 to a debt service fund to pay interest on general obligation bonds

on Jamestown's government-wide statement of activities for the year ended december 31, 2012, what amount should be reported for transfer?

2.during the year ended December 31, 2012, the town of Harrisville had the following selected transaction :

a. the general fund made a permanent transfer of $ 100,000 to an enterprise fund. Te enterprise fund used the amount transferred to acquire capital assets.

b. the general fund transferred $1,000,000 to a capital projects fund for the town's portion of the cost for the renovation of the town hall.

c. the general fund was reimbursed $5,000 by an enterprise fund  for expenses paid by the general fund that were properly charged as operating expenses of the enterprise fund.

on Harrisville's government-wide statement of activities for the year ended december 31, 2012, what amount should be reported as transfer?

ONLY PART B REQUIRED:

Question 1

The towns in Kent with their corresponding x and y coordinates as well as their population are given overleaf. This data is also in an excel file that can be downloaded from Moodle under the name “Kent-Towns”.

(a) Using Excel Solver, or otherwise, establish a location in the plane, that minimises:

(i) the sum of distances to all Kent towns,

(ii) the sum of weighted distances to all Kent towns, with populations as weights,

(iii) the maximum distance to any Kent town, and

(iv) the maximum weighted distance to any Kent town.

(b) Assume from now on that facilities can only be established at the given towns, rather than anywhere in the plane.

(i) Establish at which town a single facility should be built, if the aim is to minimise the sum of distances from the facility to all Kent towns.

(ii) Having established this facility, use the ADD heuristic to find the location of a second facility. Allocate every town to its nearest facility. Explain why these two facilities are not necessarily the optimal solution to the p-facility discrete location problem (p=2). Can you find (using your own heuristic thinking) a pair of locations that gives a better result?

In your answers to the above, clearly explain how you have arrived at your results.

Assume that different groups of couples use a particular method of gender selection and each couple gives birth to one baby. This method is designed to increase the likelihood that each baby will be a​ girl, but assume that the method has no​ effect, so the probability of a girl is 0.5. Assume that the groups consist of 42 couples. Complete parts​ (a) through​ (c) below. a. Find the mean and the standard deviation for the numbers of girls in groups of 42 births.

Here are summary statistics for randomly selected weights of newborn​ girls: nequals182​, x overbarequals31.3 ​hg, sequals6.5 hg. Construct a confidence interval estimate of the mean. Use a 95​% confidence level. Are these results very different from the confidence interval 30.1 hgless thanmuless than32.3 hg with only 18 sample​ values, x overbarequals31.2 ​hg, and sequals2.3 ​hg?

What is the confidence interval for the population mean μ​?