(a) Explain the following statement under the Malaysian Contract Law : “Consideration must be sufficient but need not be adequate.”

(b) Budget Travels, booked Hotel Kedekut for a 2 day health event for their staff. All the itinerary and the food to be served were confirmed already. The chef of Hotel Kedekut, who knows the manager of Budget Travels, Michael, very well has decided to make pastries and cupcakes for the health event on his own. The event was a success and Michael, being very delighted, promised to pay for the pastries and cupcakes to the chef on behalf of Budget Travels but in the end he didn’t do so. Is Budget Travels under an obligation to do so?

(Total :20 marks)

Table 1

Calculate the following for the car park using the data from Table 1:

a) the maximum real power demand P (kW)

b) maximum reactive power demand Q (kVAr)

c) the total apparent power demand S (kVA)

d) also, calculate the maximum current magnitude |I| if the supply voltage magnitude |V| is 3.3 kV and the supply frequency is 50 Hz.

e) Calculate the overall car park power factor.

f) Calculate the rating of the capacitor bank (μF) needed to improve the car park power factor to unity.

g) Calculate the new maximum current magnitude, after power factor correction. Again assume the supply voltage magnitude is 3.3kV and frequency is 50 Hz.

h) Select the cable ID from Table 2 that you would use to supply the car park BEFORE AND AFTER power factor correction has been applied.

i) Comment on your result.

Table 2

Write psuedocode and Java code using JOptionPane

Scenario: ABC Resort and Hotel has approached you to write a program to keep track of the number of rooms needed for an event. Customers can request any one of the following types of rooms to be reserved. Because the hotel has limited rooms available for a given event, it can only reserve up to 39 rooms. However, the hotel does not know how many rooms, in total, will be reserved because the rooms are reserved on demand.

Room Type and Price/per night: Single $79.95, Single Deluxe $99.95, Double $149.95, Double Deluxe $179.95

Create a program for use by the hotel staff to take reservation orders for rooms for an event. All events are single night stay events. So you do not need to worry about the number of nights they are staying. An order occurs when the user enters a room type by name (e.g. Single). Until the user has indicated they are finished entering room types, continue to prompt the user to enter a room type. You must validate the room type, providing an error message and re-prompting the user if an invalid room type is entered. Keep track of the number of rooms that will be reserved for each room type. Once the user has indicated they are finished entering room types, display a well-formatted report containing a list of each room type with its associated price, the number of rooms needed for that room type, the total revenue from all rooms for the event, and the average revenue from a room for the event.

Program must use arrays

Answer all 4 of the questions/topics:

Each response must be at least 200-300 words.

1. Communication

Describe and explain the importance of a good integrated information & communication system. What is the importance of communication between departments and what negative impact can a poor system of communication have for a hotel? Discuss 2 important forms of integrated PMS/Communication systems or examples of data information.

2. Future of Hotels

Imagine the hotel room of the future (10 years from now). What does the room look like? What technologies exist in the room? How does it improve the guest experience? What needs and expectations will the future guest have for Accommodation properties? In light of recent health issues what steps will the Accommodations Industry need to address to gain consumer confidence? What will the long term outcome of the industry be after crisis is cleared?

3. Housekeeping

Discuss the importance of the Housekeeping Department. Why is the Rooms Division the greatest asset of the owners? How will you deal with staffing due to lower occupancy? What steps will housekeeping need to take in order to protect our guests and our staff moving forward after the current health crisis?

4. Guest Service

Describe/Explain the following Service Recovery Model and provide an example from the Accommodation Industry for each section. Remember: As discussed in class we have to assess the Fault & Severity. Following this chart answer the following question: -How will you drive business to your hotel once crisis is over?

How will you attract business to your hotel once crisis is over?

The following data applies to Micro Advanced Developers (MAD).

As a financial manager you have been given the task of calculating the company's weighted average cost of capital (WACC). Ignore the effect of taxes.

a)Firstly, you realise that the cost of debt is needed. Calculate the cost of debt for MAD. You may give your answer as a percentage per annum to the nearest percent or use linear interpolation or a financial calculator to give a more accurate result.

Cost of debt =  % pa

b)Secondly, the cost of equity must also be identified. Calculate the cost of equity for MAD. Give your answer as a percentage per annum to 1 decimal place.

Cost of equity =  % pa

c)Finally, calculate the weighted average cost of capital for MAD. Give your answer as a percentage per annum to 1 decimal place.

Weighted average cost of capital =  % pa

Building type Average floor area (m2) Total floor area (m2) avg story height(cms) COST (HK$)

1 1852 81478 410 1467000000

1 1608 64313 411 1150000000

1 1430 55783 403 1028000000

1 1562 57794 390 1100000000

1 1109 37695 391 728000000

1 905 28048 382 558000000

1 1852 81478 410 1467000000

1 901 30617 391 631000000

1 1727 69062 400 1223000000

1 1161 37148 394 761000000

1 1004 37141 400 713000000

1 1216 38912 390 784000000

1 2007 88302 422 1593000000

1 2983 173000 440 2649000000

2 1523 70080 372 1210000000

2 912 28286 370 607000000

2 1343 53715 382 977000000

2 1175 32908 381 700000000

2 1203 40902 393 811000000

2 1393 52951 392 1001000000

2 713 20681 375 468000000

2 1047 37681 411 747000000

2 1506 63270 421 1156000000

2 1642 70624 423 1268000000

2 1848 73936 403 1333000000

2 1627 60190 402 1162000000

2 1301 40321 384 864000000

2 905 25330 405 561000000

2 1727 72514 400 1303000000

2 1414 52318 392 1013000000

2 2001 76022 431 1487000000

2 400 9200 380 263000000

2 3100 102190 454 2112000000

2 1677 83860 410 1519000000

2 2415 130032 420 2045000000

2 1555 46637 410 1025000000

2 792 20596 420 540000000

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Run a regression model to estimate the cost of a building using average story height (mean centered) and total floor area (mean centered) as predictors.

Which of the following is wrong about the slope of story height?

Select one:

a. It gives the expected change in the predicted cost for each 1 cm change in story height, holding total area constant.

b. It is a significant slope

c. The expected cost of a building with a story height of 0 cms is HK$3,185,038

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Run a regression model to estimate the cost of a building using average story height (mean centered), total floor area (mean centered), and construction type (dummy coded) as predictors.

Using the adjusted R Square statistic, how much variation in the dependent variable can be explained by the model?

Select one:

a. between 95% and 98%

b. above 98 percent

c. between 90% and 95%

d. less than 90%

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Run a regression model to estimate the cost of a building using average story height (mean centered), total floor area (mean centered), and construction type (dummy coded) as predictors.

Which of the following is correct about the intercept?

Select one:

a. It is the expected cost of a steel building with an average story height and an average total area.

b. It is the expected cost of a reinforced concrete building with an average story height and an average total area.

c. It is the expected cost of a steel building with a story height of 0 cm and an average total area.

d. It is the expected cost of a reinforced concrete building with an average story height and a total area of 0 m2.

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Run a regression model to estimate the cost of a building using average story height (mean centered), total floor area (mean centered), and construction type (dummy coded) as predictors.

According to the model, is it significantly more expensive (at .05 level) to build a steel building compared to a reinforced concrete building, holding everything else constant?

Select one:

a. no

b. yes

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Run a regression model to estimate the cost of a building using average story height (mean centered), total floor area (mean centered), and construction type (dummy coded) as predictors.

Which of the following is wrong about the slope of story height?

Select one:

a. it is the expected change in the predicted building cost for a one unit change in story height, holding total area and construction type constant.

b. Has a positive relationship with the cost of building

c. Has a negative relationship with the cost of building

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Run a regression model to estimate the cost of a building using average story height (mean centered), total floor area (mean centered), and construction type (dummy coded) as predictors.

Which of the following is wrong about the slope of total area?

Select one:

a. it is the expected change in the predicted building cost for a one unit change in total area, in holding story height and construction type constant.

b. Has a positive relationship with the cost of building

c. Has a negative relationship with the cost of building

You operate a group of hotels which have seen an increase in the amount of reservations. You currently have a staff of 10 people working in the reservations area. You would like to concentrate on providing the guests with an exceptional stay at the hotels, but the cost of a computerized reservation system would reduce the amount of staff which could service the guests. You have to make some decisions on which decision will be best for the business.

What relevant and irrelevant information do you need to make this decision?

What non-financial information is relevant to make this decision?

Explain how your decision will have an affect on your pricing for the hotel?

A factory produces metal links for building long chains used in the shipping and construction industry. The factory’s R&D unit models the length of an individual metal link (in ?m) by a random variable ?? with expectation ?0 m and variance ?. ?4 ??^?. The length of a chain is equal to the sum of the lengths of individual links that comprise the chain. The factory sells ?0 ? long chains as its final product, which it makes by combining ?002 individual metal links together. The factory guarantees that the chain length is not shorter than ?0 ? − if by chance a chain is too short, the customer is reimbursed and a new chain is issued for free.

a. For what percentage of chains would the factory need to reimburse clients and deliver new chains free of cost?

b. The sales team notices that the factory has been handing out a much larger fraction of free chains than expected as per your answer above. After further probing, the research lab reports that the exact expectation is ?. ?? ?m and not ? ?m as was previously reported based on rounding-off approximation. Do you think the research team committed a serious mistake by rounding off to the nearest whole number instead of using the exact value for expectation? Why?