A question of interest to game managers is the hunting strategy of predators. Do they just take the first prey that comes along, or are the selective? In a study of winter prey selection in a National Park, radio-tagged wolves were observed to have killed prey according to the table below. Wolves were identified as the predators by their tracks in the snow. At the most recent census in the National Park there were about 3,500 white-tailed deer, 1,000 elk, and 500 moose.

                                                                               Prey Selection by Wolves

Do these data provide sufficient evidence at the a=.05 level that the wolves are not selecting their prey at random? That is, is there evidence that the proportion of deer, elk, and moose killed by wolves are not in the same proportion as in the park population? Justify your response with an appropriate statistical analysis. Using a=.05

Answer:

H₀:

H_a:

a=.05

Rejection region:

Value of the test statistic:

p-value:

State your conclusion:

1. Dr. Chong, a citizen of Singapore, traveled to Singapore from the United States recently and is quarantined in a 4-star hotel at government expense. The hotel charges SGD 300 per night (with breakfast). Aiden expects to be quarantined for 14 days. What is the cost to the government of the two-week hotel stay in U.S. dollars?
2. Given the following prices, calculate the price of pounds in dollars (how many dollars it takes to buy a pound): $1.08374/€, €1.14212/£         
3. Assume the following: Spot rate ¥110/$ and one-year interest rates in Japan and the U.S. are 2% and 4%, respectively. What is the expected exchange rate in a year?
4. You are trying to decide whether to invest in the U.S. or Switzerland for the next 3 months. The spot rate is $.6667/CHF, the 90-day forward is $.6756/CHF, and the annualized rates on the U.S. T-bill and Swiss government 3 month bonds are 10% and 4.5333%. Is it better to invest in the U.S. or Switzerland?

Milky entered into a contract for the hire of 6 rooms in New Castle Hotel in    Kowloon West. The purpose of the contract was to watch the fireworks gala in the Victoria Harbour on the 1st July (Reunification Day) through the windows of the rooms. Milky planned to invite her close friends and their families to stay in the 6 rooms to enjoy the fireworks. Just two hours before start of the fireworks, the Hong Kong Police Force received a serious threat from some terrorist organizations that they would launch large scale attack to the crowds who gathered to watch the fireworks. The Hong Kong Government immediate ordered the cancellation of the fireworks and gave an order that this kind of gala will not be launched at least for five years. Milky, having already paid a deposit, refused to pay the balance of the room charges. The hotel took legal action to recover the balance.

Required:

Analyse the chance of success by the hotel and explain in detail the legal principles that you base on for analysis.

A common room pricing strategy used by hotels is to price each day for which this room can be reserved, as discussed in the lecture. The price of a stay is then the sum of the day prices spanned by the stay (i.e., checkin and checkout dates). Full-service airlines, as you may already know, typically price itineraries. a. Explain the differences between day pricing of hotel rooms and the pricing of airline itineraries? (i.e. What is the product?, What is the resource?, and What is being priced?) b. Consider the purchase of a customized laptop on Dell’s website. Customization involves choosing laptop components that have different price points. The choice of components determines the ultimate price of the laptop. Explain why the day pricing of hotel rooms is a special case of the problem of pricing laptop components being shown to customers in Dell’s website. c. Why is Dell’s pricing problem more complicated than the pricing problem faced by a hotel?

You have been appointed as the Finance Manager of Shangpuri Hotel Bhd. As a finance manager, you are evaluating Project PJ10B, an investment project, and TWO (2) other additional projects namely Project Bee and Project Cee. You are required to deliver a comprehensive report explaining the application of numerous financial practices for valuing investment projects for the board of directors’ strategic decision. Your finance department has forecasted cash flows to assess the viability of Project PJ10B, Project Bee, and Project Cee incorporating risk into the calculations.

Additional information:

1. Current dividend for Shangpuri Hotel Bhd’s ordinary stock is RM2.50 and dividend growth rate is 6%.

2. Shangpuri Hotel Bhd is planning to issue new ordinary stock at RM50 with a flotation cost of 9%.

3. The company’s bond is paying a 6% coupon payment. Corporate tax stood at 30%.

4. Shangri Hotel Bhd’s capital structure comprising of 40% debt and 60% common stock.

Information related to Project PJ10B

The cost of this investment is RM1,200,000.

The investment is estimated to effectively contribute for 3 years. Ignore the residual value.

Depreciation for the Project PJ10B is subject to a straight-line method.

Further, yearly cash inflow is estimated at $900,000 and cash outflow RM400,000 per year. Cash inflow and outflow in entitle for tax benefit.

Finance department estimates discount factor at 7.0%.

Information related to Project Bee

1. Cost of this investment is RM120,000

2. Finance department estimates discount factor at 8.0%.

3. Ignore tax and depreciation.

Information related to Project Cee

1. Cost of this investment is RM120,000

2. Finance department estimates discount factor at 8.0%.

3. Ignore tax and depreciation.

Required:

QUESTION 1

a. Calculate the cost of new ordinary stock for Shangpuri Hotel Bhd. The current dividend for the ordinary stock is $2.50 and the dividend is expected to grow at 6%.

b. Explain THREE (3) advantages and THREE (3) disadvantages of equity financing.

c. Calculate cost of debt for Shangpuri Hotel Bhd

d. Explain THREE (3) advantage and THREE (3) disadvantages of debt financing.

e. Calculate the weighted average cost of capital for the company

f. Explain FIVE (5) uses of WACC.

QUESTION 2

a. Calculate NPV for Project PJ10B based on discount factor of Shangpuri Hotel Bhd.

b. Calculate NPV for Project PJ10B based on WACC of Shangpuri Hotel Bhd.

c. Calculate IRR for Project PJ10B

d. Explain FIVE (5) conflicts between NPV and IRR

QUESTION 3

a. Calculate expected Annual Cash flow from Project Bee

b. Calculate expected Annual Cash flow from Project Cee

c. Calculate NPV and IRR from Project Bee assuming discount factor stood at 8% & Project Bee’s life span is 6 years.

d. Calculate NPV and IRR from Project Cee assuming discount factor stood at 8% & Project Cee’s life span is 6 years.

QUESTION 4

a. Provide overall recommendation to Shangpuri Hotel Bhd Board of Directors on the viability of

             i. Project PJ10B.

ii. Project Bee.

iii. Project Cee.

(15 marks

b. Prepare an executive summary

Use the code below as the basis for a hotel reservation system (HRS). The customer calls the hotel front desk to book a room. The front desk is running your software on one of its computers. The basic operations available are:

1. book one room,
2. book two adjoining rooms,
3. list all unoccupied rooms,
4. list all occupied rooms,
5. help lists information about available methods,
6. report percent of hotel rooms that are unoccupied,
7. quit the system (shut the system down).

The people at the front desk choose a particular operation, typically in response to a phone call.

Start by modularizing the existing program code below as follows. Create a method from the welcome message (and call this new method from main). Next, create a method from the end message (and also call it from main). Finally, create a method from the help information (and call from main too).

Now we'll implement the methods of the HRS. A new method, bookOneRoom, should randomly book one room when 'b' or 'B' is pressed. Once a room is chosen, it should call bookARoom to indicate that the room is now booked. A new method, bookTwoRooms, should randomly book two rooms when '2' is pressed. It should call bookARoom (twice). Also, write a method that lists (prints out) the room numbers of all of the unoccupied rooms (when the user presses 'l' - lowercase L). Similarly, write a method that lists (prints out) the room nummbers of all of the occupied rooms (when 'L' is entered). Finally, write a method that reports the percentage of the hotel rooms that are unoccupied. This method should use the existing occupiedCount method.

Note: Every method should be preceeded by a comment that explains what the method does.

Summary of what to submit:

A properly commented, indented, and working program.

/*
file:      HRS.java
author:    < your-name-here >
desc.:     Hotel Reservation System (HRS)
*/
import  java.util.Scanner;

class HRS {

    final static int      N = 101;
    final static boolean  Occupied = true;
    //------------------------------------------------------------
    //program initialization
    static void initialize ( boolean[] rooms ) {
        for (int i=0; i<rooms.length; i++)
            rooms[i] = !Occupied;
    }
    //------------------------------------------------------------
    //book a particular room
    static void bookARoom ( int rm, boolean[] rooms ) {
        assert( rooms[rm] == !Occupied );  //cause boom if bad
        rooms[ rm ] = Occupied;
    }
    //------------------------------------------------------------
    //determine how many rooms are occupied in our hotel
    static int occupiedCount ( boolean[] rooms ) {
        int  count = 0;
        for (int i=1; i<rooms.length; i++) {
            if (rooms[i])    ++count;
        }
        return count;
    }
    //------------------------------------------------------------
    //it all starts here
    public static void main ( String[] args ) {
        //say hello
        System.out.println();
        System.out.println( "Welcome to HRS (Hotel Reservation System)." );
        System.out.println();

        boolean[]  hotel = new boolean[ N ];
        initialize( hotel );
        Scanner  kbd = new Scanner( System.in );
        boolean  timeToQuit = false;
        while (!timeToQuit) {
            //prompt for and read a command
            System.out.print( "HRS --> " );
            String  command = kbd.nextLine();

            //process the command
            if (command.equalsIgnoreCase("q")) {
                timeToQuit = true;
            } else if (command.equals("?")) {
                System.out.println();
                System.out.println( "Enter..." );
                System.out.println( "    2     to book two adjoining rooms" );
                System.out.println( "    b/B   to book a single room" );
                System.out.println( "    l     to list all unoccupied rooms" );
                System.out.println( "    L     to list all occupied rooms" );
                System.out.println( "    h/H/? for help" );
                System.out.println( "    p/P   for percent unoccupied" );
                System.out.println( "    q/Q   to quit" );
                System.out.println();
            } else {
                System.out.println( "    Please enter a valid command." );
            }
        }

        //say goodbye
        System.out.println();
        System.out.println( "Thanks for using HRS!" );
        System.out.println();
    }
}

A student conducted an experiment to determine what factors are important in the rate of a reaction between potassium carbonate and hydrochloric acid. The student diluted 2.000 mL of 4.000 M K2CO3 to 75.00 mL, then combined that solution with 75.00 mL of 2.000 M HCl.

The student tabulated the amount of CO2 gas collected over time and recorded the results in the columns to the left.

1. Use a rearrangement of PV = nRT to solve for the number of moles of CO2 produced. You may assume atmospheric pressure and room temperature. Enter (and fill down) your formula in column C.

This is suppose to be an excel file bt i do not know how to manipulate the formula where I can put it into excel and what information to extract from the problem to use in order to help solve the problem.

HELP PLEASE !!

Course Project Case Study: Mr. Lopez is an 85 year-old Hispanic man who was admitted to the hospital with complaints of fatigue, decreased appetite, and a 25 pound weight loss over the past six months. He also reports change in his short term memory. He used to be active with his local retired friends and walked 1.5 miles a day but now spends most of his time in his recliner watching television. He has a medical history of coronary artery disease and hypertension.

Orders include: Regular diet, calorie count Ensure shakes TID daily Ambulate TID daily, stand by assist Daily weights Warfarin 2 mg PO daily Digoxin 125 mcg PO daily Atorvastatin 20 mg PO daily Escitalopram 10 mg PO daily Metoprolol 50 mg PO BID Do not resuscitate

Choose five labs or diagnostic tests that might be ordered for your case study client. Note normal results, expected abnormal values, and what that would signify for your client.

A transit district has asked for assistance in determining the proper fare for its bus system. An effective annual interest rate of 7% is to be used. The following additional information was compiled.

Cost per bus

Bus life

Salvage Value

Miles driven per year 37,440

Number of passengers80,000

Operating cost $1.00 per mile in the first year, increasing $0.10 per mile

after each year thereafter

$60,000 20 years $10,000

8. If the fare is to remain constant for the next 20 years, the break-even fare per passenger is most nearly:

(A) $0.51 per passenger (B) $0.61 per passenger (C) $0.84 per passenger (D) $0.88 per passenger

9. If the transit district decides to set the per-passenger fare at $0.35 for the first year, approximately how much should the passenger fare go up each year thereafter such that the district can break even in 20 years?

(A) $0.022 increase per year (B) $0.036 increase per year (C) $0.067 increase per year (D) $0.072 increase per year