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1 - A population that is at equilibrium has two alleles, A and a. The frequency...

1 - A population that is at equilibrium has two alleles, A and a. The frequency of the recessive allele a is 0.3. What is the frequency of individuals that are homozygous recessive?

2 - A population that is at equilibrium has two alleles, A and a. The frequency of the dominant allele A is 0.3. What is the frequency of individuals that are homozygous recessive?

In: Biology

SecuriCorp operates a fleet of armored cars that make scheduled pickups and deliveries in the Los...

SecuriCorp operates a fleet of armored cars that make scheduled pickups and deliveries in the Los Angeles area. The company is implementing an activity-based costing system that has four activity cost pools: Travel, Pickup and Delivery, Customer Service, and Other. The activity measures are miles for the Travel cost pool, number of pickups and deliveries for the Pickup and Delivery cost pool, and number of customers for the Customer Service cost pool. The Other cost pool has no activity measure because it is an organization-sustaining activity. The following costs will be assigned using the activity-based costing system:

Driver and guard wages $ 720,000
Vehicle operating expense 280,000
Vehicle depreciation 120,000
Customer representative salaries and expenses 160,000
Office expenses 30,000
Administrative expenses 320,000
Total cost $ 1,630,000

The distribution of resource consumption across the activity cost pools is as follows:

Travel Pickup
and
Delivery
Customer
Service
Other Totals
Driver and guard wages 50 % 35 % 10 % 5 % 100 %
Vehicle operating expense 70 % 5 % 0 % 25 % 100 %
Vehicle depreciation 60 % 15 % 0 % 25 % 100 %
Customer representative salaries and expenses 0 % 0 % 90 % 10 % 100 %
Office expenses 0 % 20 % 30 % 50 % 100 %
Administrative expenses 0 % 5 % 60 % 35 % 100 %

Required:

Complete the first stage allocations of costs to activity cost pools.

2.

Green Thumb Gardening is a small gardening service that uses activity-based costing to estimate costs for pricing and other purposes. The proprietor of the company believes that costs are driven primarily by the size of customer lawns, the size of customer garden beds, the distance to travel to customers, and the number of customers. In addition, the costs of maintaining garden beds depends on whether the beds are low maintenance beds (mainly ordinary trees and shrubs) or high maintenance beds (mainly flowers and exotic plants). Accordingly, the company uses the five activity cost pools listed below:

Activity Cost Pool Activity Measure
Caring for lawn Square feet of lawn
Caring for garden beds–low maintenance Square feet of low maintenance beds
Caring for garden beds–high maintenance Square feet of high maintenance beds
Travel to jobs Miles
Customer billing and service Number of customers

The company already has completed its first stage allocations of costs and has summarized its annual costs and activity as follows:

Activity Cost Pool Estimated
Overhead
Cost
Expected Activity
Caring for lawn $ 72,000 150,000 square feet of lawn
Caring for garden beds–low maintenance $ 26,400 20,000 square feet of low maintenance beds
Caring for garden beds–high maintenance $ 41,400 15,000 square feet of high maintenance beds
Travel to jobs $ 3,250 12,500 miles
Customer billing and service $ 8,750 25 customers

Required:

Compute the activity rate for each of the activity cost pools. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places except customer billing and service.)

3.

Klumper Corporation is a diversified manufacturer of industrial goods. The company’s activity-based costing system contains the following six activity cost pools and activity rates:

Activity Cost Pool Activity Rates
Supporting direct labor $ 6 per direct labor-hour
Machine processing $ 4 per machine-hour
Machine setups $ 50 per setup
Production orders $ 90 per order
Shipments $ 14 per shipment
Product sustaining $ 840 per product

Activity data have been supplied for the following two products:

Total Expected Activity

K425 M67
Number of units produced per year 200 2,000
Direct labor-hours 80 500
Machine-hours 100 1,500
Machine setups 1 4
Production orders 1 4
Shipments 1 10
Product sustaining 1 1

Required:

How much total overhead cost would be assigned to K425 and M67 using the activity-based costing system?

In: Accounting

Caro Manufacturing has two production departments, Machining and Assembly, and two service departments, Maintenance and Cafeteria....

Caro Manufacturing has two production departments, Machining and Assembly, and two service departments, Maintenance and Cafeteria. Direct costs for each department and the proportion of service costs used by the various departments for the month of August follow:

Proportion of Services Used by
Department Direct Costs Maintenance Cafeteria Machining Assembly
Machining $ 103,000
Assembly 72,400
Maintenance 44,800 0.2 0.6 0.2
Cafeteria 36,000 0.6 0.2

0.2

Compute the allocation of service department costs to producing departments using the direct method. (Do not round intermediate calculations.)

Total Costs

Machining

Assembly

In: Accounting

Which Economic Model best describes and analyzes this article? ‘NO EXCESSIVE BARKING’: A Chevy Chase dog...

Which Economic Model best describes and analyzes this article?

‘NO EXCESSIVE BARKING’: A Chevy Chase dog park divides the rich and powerful

A sign that reads “NO EXCESSIVE BARKING’ sits behind Chubbs, right, and Louie, left, a French bulldog who is the unofficial mayor of the dog park. (Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post) By Jessica Contrera August 28, 2019 at 7:00 a.m. EDT Everyone knows there’s a problem with Chubbs. Dirt is smeared across his face. His tongue is rolling out of his mouth. He’s surrounded by signs that say “NO EXCESSIVE BARKING.” But the 5-month-old golden retriever does not know how to read. At a dog park in one of Maryland’s wealthiest suburbs, he spends this sunny August morning rolling on his back. He opens his mouth, and then, he does it. He woofs. Twice. “CHUBBS!” four humans around him yell, trying to stop him from doing what dogs do — just not in Chevy Chase Village this summer. Here in this community of the rich and powerful, where the average household income is $460,000, barking is the subject of a ferocious (fur-ocious?) debate — one that has divided the two-legged one-percenters for nearly a year. The drama began last fall when the village spent $134,000 to turn a muddy triangle of land into a park where pups could run off-leash in a fenced refuge. Chase tennis balls. Sniff one another’s butts. But after about a month, signs decrying the barking of those dogs began appearing around the park. The village police started receiving almost daily calls about the noise, mostly from one particular neighbor whose house backs up to the park. By spring, the tension had escalated so much that the Chevy Chase Village Board of Managers called a public hearing. Then another in June. And another in July.
At the center of it all is Elissa Leonard, chair of the village board and wife to Jerome H. Powell, who is also a chair — of the Federal Reserve. In recent months, her husband has been under attack from President Trump, who appointed him but blames him for the tanking stock market. “My only question is, who is our bigger enemy, Jay Powell or Chairman Xi?” the president tweeted Friday. Leonard, meanwhile, is on the receiving end of a different siege: from village residents who say their peace and quiet has been disturbed by barking dogs. “Around dinner time, I’d like to be able to sit on my deck and maybe read a book and chat with a friend or have a glass of wine, and the dogs are barking,” Joanie Edwards, the neighbor who had been calling police, testified at the meeting in May. “As residents of Chevy Chase, how many times is it acceptable for you to be bothered in your house every day?” Tom Bourke, a real estate developer whose house sits across the street from the park, asked in June. “You’ve created a nuisance.” The park regulars, he acknowledged, were trying to hush their hounds. He heard that they were ostracizing the yappiest dogs, including, he told the board, “a certain standard poodle whose name should be withheld.” “But there are people,” chimed in Bourke’s wife, Dale, “and I don’t mean to characterize the District, but I just notice that they have District plates on their cars, and they have very little regard for us or our property . . . there are dogs barking and they’re just not doing anything.” “I hear you,” Leonard said again and again, with the patience of a dog trainer. She explained to the residents that no, they could not restrict access just to dogs from the immediate neighborhood (where the houses for sale currently range in price from $1.1 million to $22.5 million). The village purchased this 15,000-square-foot parcel of land in the 1980s, in part, using state money, so it had to remain open to the public. For years, it had been a favorite spot of local dog owners, so when the village wanted to update its parks, a dog park just made sense. Neighbors voiced their support. A unanimous vote followed. But now the park was somehow both a wild canine circus sabotaging property values and a beloved gathering space for only the politest of pooches. Leonard, whose Norwich terrier, Pippa, does not frequent the park, tried to make both sides happy. To limit barking in the early hours, the board changed the opening time from 7 to 8 a.m. To stop outsiders from driving to Chevy Chase Village and parking on the Bourkes’ street — taking the spots where the family liked their lawn maintenance service to park — the dog park was wiped from the village website. To determine the extent of the barking and the parking, the board paid $1,300 for a woman with a graduate degree in epidemiology to spend weeks studying the behavior of the dogs and their humans. During 54 visits, the researcher witnessed seven dog owners who drove to the park instead of walking. “One of these people,” she testified in June, “did allow his dog to relieve himself on the green space next to the street.” But on the barking, no conclusion was reached. What was minimal to some was enough for Edwards to call the police, exasperated that she had to turn on music inside her home so she didn’t have to hear the dogs. She doesn’t want to be the bad guy, she said in an interview. But as a retired elementary school teacher, she now spends her days at home painting. She does landscapes from her travels and portraits of people, vibrant creations so popular in her circle that friends and strangers have also commissioned her
to paint their most beloved companions: their pets. She and her husband, a lawyer, used to have dogs of their own. Her last, a black lab named Zoe, died four years ago. “People in the community keep saying, ‘She should get another dog, if she had a dog, it would be different,’ ” Edwards said. “Well, first of all, I am a very considerate person, and if I had a dog, and he was barking in my back yard, I would bring him in. If my children were in a restaurant crying, I would take them out.” The fence, she says, should come down, so the dog park is just a park. At a public hearing on Sept. 9, Leonard and the board may decide to do just that. The dog lovers are planning to crowd the hearing, have organized a letter-writing campaign and started a Facebook group, Save the Chevy Chase Dog Park, with more than 100 likes. “What are they going to do next, ban dancing?” asked Pat Murphy, the group’s moderator. Murphy, who lives in a nearby section of Chevy Chase, says he literally does “not have a dog in this fight.” He does not own a dog. He used to take his son’s miniature Australian shepherd to the park, but his son moved away this summer. Now he sometimes walks alone to the park, where every morning, the conversation returns to the handful of complaining neighbors. “They should be put in jail,” said Doug Gansler, a former Maryland attorney general and an unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate, while his King Charles spaniel, Jack, searched for a new dog to hump. “Doug!” scolded Patty Martin, mother to the park’s unofficial mayor, a French bulldog named Louie, and wife to the head of gastroenterology at Washington Hospital Center. She, too, thought the complainers were being selfish. “Where’s the democratic process?” Martin asked in an interview last week. “Why is the 1 percent deciding for the 99 percent?” “This is not verified,” she continued, “But we have heard through reliable sources that this woman has threatened a lawsuit against the village over the park. Well, many dog park users are lawyers, too, so we’re wondering, should we get a lawyer? Do we have grounds to sue?” While lawyers consulted lawyers, her husband contacted media outlets. Eventually, the story made its way to this reporter, and to her recently adopted mutt, who visited the park in hopes of sniffing out what was really going on. Despite their owners’ fretting, Chubbs, Jack, Louie and all the other dogs appear unaware that their joyful morning romp has caused such a kerfuffle. The aforementioned “standard poodle whose name should be withheld” did not make an appearance. After this reporter’s dog spent some time digging (for the truth, we presume), he was asked what he thought of the park. He woofed. Twice. The police did not arrive.

In: Economics

Calculate uK Run # Experimental Condition Total Block Mass (M) Total Hanging Mass (m) Measured Acceleration...

Calculate uK

Run #

Experimental Condition

Total Block Mass (M)

Total Hanging
Mass (m)

Measured
Acceleration
(“slope value”)

Calculated
µk

Wooden Surface

1

Initial Block Mass
Initial Hanging Mass

0.324 kg

0.1 kg

0.22 m/s2

2

Initial Block Mass
Doubled Hanging Mass

0.324 kg

0.2 kg

1.5 m/s2

3

Doubled Block Mass
Doubled Hanging Mass

0.648 kg

0.2 kg

0.19 m/s2

Felt Surface

4

Initial Block Mass
Initial Hanging Mass

0.324 kg

0.1 kg

0.26 m/s2

5

Initial Block Mass
Doubled Hanging Mass

0.324 kg

0.2 kg

1.9 m/s2

6

Doubled Block Mass
Doubled Hanging Mass

0.648 kg

0.2 kg

0.4 m/s2

Cork Surface

7

Initial Block Mass
Initial Hanging Mass

0.324 kg

0.1 kg

0.2 m/s2

8

Initial Block Mass
Doubled Hanging Mass

0.324 kg

0.2 kg

1.7 m/s2

9

Doubled Block Mass
Doubled Hanging Mass

0.648 kg

0.2 kg

0.12 m/s2

In: Physics

Instructions: Answer ALL questions in the examination booklet. You are required to show your workings unless...

Instructions:

Answer ALL questions in the examination booklet. You are required to show your workings unless stated otherwise.

QUESTION 1

  1. What is the lowest z-value for the lowest 5% of observations on the standard normal distribution?

  

  1. If we know that the length of time it takes a university student to find a parking space in the university car park follows a normal distribution with a mean of 3.5 minutes and a standard deviation of 1 minute, find the Interquartile Range (IQR) for a randomly selected university student finding a parking space.

  1. The daily sales of a retail store are normally distributed with a standard deviation of $500. If the probability that sales will be more than $10,000 in any one day is 60%, what are the mean daily sales?

  1. A drinks machine dispenses coffee into cups. A sign on the machine indicates that each cup contains 100ml of coffee. The machine actually dispenses a mean amount of 105ml per cup and 10% of the cups contain less than the amount stated on the sign. Assuming that the amount of coffee dispenses into each cup is normally distributed, find the standard deviation of the amount of coffee dispensed per cup in ml.

  1. Given the following table of values, find, showing ALL workings:

X=

0

1

2

3

P(X=x)

0.2

0.21

0.19

?

  1. The missing probability.                     

In: Statistics and Probability

I need a theater/performance/television studies expert or anyone who's an expert in social media or Afram...

I need a theater/performance/television studies expert or anyone who's an expert in social media or Afram Studies--PLEASE! Basically, anybody knowledgeable about this area of expertise.

Define "Black Twitter" and provide a social media example (a platform, incident, phenomenon, hashtag, or personality) and its connections to the term and readings. Reference the readings of Sarah Florini, Sanjay Sharma, or Andre Brock.

In: Psychology

Determine whether each of the following is true or false:In the short run, insurance on...

  1. Determine whether each of the following is true or false:

    1. In the short run, insurance on your property is a fixed cost.

    2. In the short run, the heating of your warehouse is a fixed cost.

    3. In the long run, there are more fixed costs than in the short run.

  1. Assume that you run a concession stand at a small movie theater selling popcorn. Each day you must pay the theater management $50, so this is your fixed cost. If you are able to sell 100 boxes of popcorn each day, the variable cost per box is $0.15. Use these figures to determine average fixed cost, average variable cost, and average total cost.

  2. Based on the following table, where do diminishing marginal returns begin to set in? Explain.

    1. MachinesDaily Output
      1300
      2700
      31,000
      41,200
      51,300
      61,300

5. If fixed costs are $100 and variable costs are $200 at an output level of 30 units, what are average fixed costs, average variable costs, and average total costs?

In: Economics

Valerie Fondl manages a Columbus, Ohio, movie theater complex called Cinema I, II, III, and IV....

Valerie Fondl manages a Columbus, Ohio, movie theater complex called Cinema I, II, III, and IV. Each of the four auditoriums plays a different film; the schedule staggers starting times to avoid the large crowds that would occur if all four movies started at the same time. The theater has a single ticket booth and a cashier who can maintain an average service rate of 280 patrons per hour. Service times are assumed to follow an exponential distribution. Arrivals on a normally active day are Poisson distributed and average 210 per hour. To determine the efficiency of the current ticket operation, Valeri wishes to examine several queue-operating characteristics.

a. Find the average number of moviegoers waiting in line to purchase a ticket.

b. What percentage of the time is the cashier busy?

c. What is the average time that a customer spends in the system?

d. What is the average time spent waiting in line to get to the ticket window?

e. What is the probability that there are more than two people in the system? More than three people? More than four?

In: Math

1. A retail store runs an advertising campaign on a radio station. They decide to measure...

1. A retail store runs an advertising campaign on a radio station. They decide to measure the effectiveness of the campaign by measuring the increase in customers compared to previous days. They choose 35 days at random, and find the average number of customers to have increased by 83.3 customers per day. Historically, the number of customers per day has a standard deviation of 17.5 customers. What is the 95% confidence interval for the population mean increase in customers?

Select one:

a. 79.51 to 87.09

b. 79.54 to 87.06

c. 77.50 to 89.10

d. 55.70 to 110.90

e. 78.42 to 88.18

2. A movie theater in a tourist destination notices that their attendance improves when it is rainy outside. For the past year, the standard deviation of movie attendance has been 6.1 people. The theater looks at the attendance of 42 movies while it was raining last month, and the average attendance was 91.2 people per showing. What is the 80% confidence interval?

Select one:

a. 89.65 to 92.75

b. 73.19 to 109.21

c. 90.00 to 92.40

d. 89.36 to 93.04

e. 91.01 to 91.39

In: Statistics and Probability