What factors influence a firm’s choice between (i) home production & exporting, (ii) direct foreign investment to set up a factory near customers, and (iii) licencing a foreign producer.

Discuss how dress code standards for health care companies have changed over the years. Identify some of the current standards that you believe will change in the near future and explain why.

These instructions are written with the assumption that code will be done in matlab. You might find the following built in commands useful: length, plot, xlabel, ylabel, title, legend, fzero, plot, disp, axis, axes, min, max.

2. Numerical Integration (Quadrature). Write FOUR of your own numerical integration routines. One should use left-end, right-end, or mid-points, another should use the trapezoid method, another should use Simpson’s method, and the fourth should use either Guassian Quadrature or Romberg’s method. Use your four routines to approximate two integrals numerically so that they are accurate to 1 part in 1 billion (if possible, if this is not possible explain why). First use your routines to approximate f(x) = x 3 − x cos(x) on the interval [0, 2π], you can and should check that your answer is correct. Then use your routines to approximate f(x) = 4e −2x 2 on the interval [−1, 1]. Use one of matlab’s built in integration functions to approximate both integrals also. Each integral should be: numerically approximated FOUR ways, checked vs one of matlab’s built-in numerical integration methods, and the polynomial/trig function should be checked exactly.

Use a general supply and demand model to explain the following: Several hotel-resorts have opened in the past decade in Las Vegas. The Bellagio has world-class art and the Paris LV is a recreation of Paris (without the rude French people). These and other new hotels have increased the supply of rooms in Las Vegas by 25%, however, room rates have doubled over the same time. How is this possible?

A 300-room hotel in Las Vegas is filled to capacity every night at $80 a room. For each $1 increase in rent, 3 fewer rooms are rented.

At what rate should the rooms be rented to produce the maximum revenue and how many rooms are rented at that rate? What is the maximum revenue? Write your results in a sentence as what each number means and represents. Please include all steps needed

The village of oak park is selling bonds to finance infrastructure maintenance and improvements. The bonds have a face amount of $5,000,000 and carry a 6% coupon rate. Interest is paid semi-annually until the bonds mature in 10 years. How much profits will the village make from the sale of its bonds if current market interest rates are 4.5%?

(Hint: PV of semi-annual coupon payment is $2,394,556.86)

As a marketing consultant, you are frequently asked by clients to develop recommendations for marketing communication strategies. The traditional elements used include advertising, sales promotion, public relations, and personal selling. Which of these do you feel would be most effective for each of the following clients? Why? (200 Words). please

• A bookstore
• An all-inclusive resort hotel
• A university
• A company that produces organic snacks
• A sports equipment company

On May 1. 20*2, Nexus Hotel issued bonds with a face value of $300,000. The bonds were 10 years, 9 percent annual bonds that sold at a price of of $390,000. Annual interest payments occur on April 30.

1. Journalize the necessary adjusting entries for December 31, 20*2.

2. Calculate the remaining balance of the Premium on Bonds Payable account on December 31, 20*2.

The following data are taken from a study conducted by the National Park System, of which Death Valley is a unit. The ground temperatures (°F) were taken from May to November in the vicinity of Furnace Creek. Compute the mean, median, mode,midrange,range, sample standard deviation and variance.

146 180 152 178 168 178 174

168 180 165 178 152 179 144

The health of the bear population in Yellowstone National Park is monitored by periodic measurements taken from anesthetized bears. A sample of 54 bears has a mean weight of 182.9 lb. Assuming that the population standard deviation is known to be 121.8lb, construct and interpret a 99% confidence interval estimate of the mean of the population of all such bear weights. Round the limits to 1 decimal place. State the type of interval: Z or T interval