You are camping in Glacier National Park. In the midst of a glacier canyon, you make a loud holler. You hear an echo 1.22 seconds later. A. How far away are the canyon walls if you assume that the speed of sound in air is 343m/s? B. If the temp of the air drops significantly, what would happen to the speed of the sound in the air?

Ada Hotel Group has set up a pension fund for employee benefits. The company plans to put $50,000 in the fund at the end of each quarter. If this is a 20-year fund that earns 6.4% annual interest compounded quarterly, what would be fund balance at the end of 20 years?

a. $7,459,234.56

b. $9,268,201.30

c. $8,001,194.75

d. $10,238,430.10

14. The health of the adult dinosaur population in Jurassic Park is monitored by periodic measurements from drugged and sleeping animals. A sample of 54 dinosaurs has mean height of 182.9 in. Assuming that “sigma” is known to be 121.8 in., use a 0.05 significance level to test the claim that the population mean of all such dinosaur heights should be greater than 150 in.

Is the total relativistic energy in 1 kg of ²³⁸U greater than, equal to, or less than the total energy in 1 kg of ¹²C?

You’re in a park listening to a concert that’s 70 m away. The music is faint, and you want the sound intensity to be a factor of 4 times higher. How far from the stage do you need to be?

In many large cities, the government operates a museum, library and park that are visited by a substantial number of people who are not residents of the city. What economic reasons would justify the city financing these services through user charges? What problems would user-charge financing present in these cases? What should the charge be based on, or how should it be structured

Value of the Night Audit"

Evaluate the various night audit reports and determine which is the most valuable across the greatest number of circumstances. Explain your rationale. Analyze recent innovations in night audit procedures (with a focus on automation) to determine the most significant benefit to both guests and management of any given hotel. Explain your rationale.

What are 7 or more key ways in which marketers (in hotels and other companies) could actively and effectively engage with TripAdvisor? One way to answer this question is to assume that you are the CEO of a hotel and your TripAdvisor ratings at below 2 (where 5 is the best). What specific strategic initiatives would you as the CEO pursue to address this situation?

Jacks Construction has 80 bonds outstanding that are selling at their par value of $1000 each. Bonds with similar characteristics are yielding a pre-tax 8.6% ( pre-tax cost of debt). The firm has 4000 shares of common stock outstanding. The stock has a beta of 1.1 and sells for $40 a share. The US T-bill is yielding 4%, the market risk premium is 8% and the firms tax rate is 21%. The firm is considering a 5 year expansion project that costs 8 million and will generate an annual after tax cash flow of 13.5 million beginning at time 1.

Calculate the firms cost of equity capital.

Calculate the after tax. firms cost of debt

What are the weights of debt and equity

Calculate the WACC

What is the NPV of the project