4. Word Find A popular diversion in the United States, “word find” (or “word search”) puzzles ask the player to find each of a given set of words in a square table filled with single letters. A word can read horizontally (left or right), vertically (up or down), or along a 45 degree diagonal (in any of the four directions) formed by consecutively adjacent cells of the table; it may wrap around the table’s boundaries, but it must read in the same direction with no zigzagging. The same cell of the table may be used in different words, but, in a given word, the same cell may be used no more than once. Write a computer program for solving this puzzle.

Epsilon Airlines services predominantly the eastern and southeastern united States. The vast majority of Epsilon’s customers make reservations through Epsilon’s website, but a small percentage of customers make reservations via phones. Epsilon employs call center personnel to handle these reservations and to deal with website reservation system problems and for the rebooking of flights for customers whose plans have changed or whose travel is disrupted. Staffing the call center appropriately is a challenge for Epsilon’s management team. Having too many employees on hand is a waste of money, but having too few results in very poor customer service and the potential loss of customers.

Epsilon analysts have estimated the minimum number of call center employees needed by day of the week for the upcoming vacation season (June, July, and the first two weeks of August). These estimates are as follows:

The call center employees work for five consecutive days and then have two consecutive days off. An employee may start work on any day of the week. Each call center employee receives the same salary. Assume that the schedule cycles and ignore start up and stopping of the schedule.

Develop a model that will minimize the total number of call center employees needed to meet the minimum requirements.

Find the optimal solution.

Total Number of Employees =

Give the number of call center employees that exceed the minimum required.

Excess employees:

regular gasoline averaged $2.75 per gallon in the United States in March 2010. Assume the standard deviation for gasoline prices is $0.08 per gallon. A random sample of 30 service stations was selected.

a) What is the probability that the sample mean will be less than $2.77?

b) What is the probability that the sample mean will be more than $2.76?

c) What is the probability that the sample mean will be between $2.72 and $2.78?

d) Suppose the sample mean is $2.79. Does this result support the findings of AAA? Explain your answer.

Lionel Corporation manufactures pharmaceutical products sold through a network of sales agents in the United States and Canada. The agents are currently paid an 18% commission on sales; that percentage was used when Lionel prepared the following budgeted income statement for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019:

Since the completion of the income statement, Lionel has learned that its sales agents are requiring a 5% increase in their commission rate (to 23%) for the upcoming year. As a result, Lionel’s president has decided to investigate the possibility of hiring its own sales staff in place of the network of sales agents and has asked Alan Chen, Lionel’s controller, to gather information on the costs associated with this change.

Alan estimates that Lionel must hire eight salespeople to cover the current market area, at an average annual payroll cost for each employee of $80,000, including fringe benefits expense. Travel and entertainment expenses is expected to total $700,000 for the year, and the annual cost of hiring a sales manager and sales secretary will be $200,000. In addition to their salaries, the eight salespeople will each earn commissions at the rate of 10% of sales. The president believes that Lionel also should increase its advertising budget by $600,000 if the eight salespeople are hired.

Required

1. Determine Lionel’s breakeven point (operating profit = 0) in sales dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019, if the company hires its own sales force and increases its advertising costs. Prove this by constructing a contribution income statement.

2. If Lionel continues to sell through its network of sales agents and pays the higher commission rate, determine the estimated volume in sales dollars that would be required to generate the operating profit as projected in the budgeted income statement.

Almost all medical schools in the United States require students to take the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT). To estimate the mean score μ of those who took the MCAT on your campus, you will obtain the scores of an SRS of students. The scores follow a Normal distribution, and from published information you know that the standard deviation is 10.4 . Suppose that, unknown to you, the mean score of those taking the MCAT on your campus is 495 .

In answering the questions, use z‑scores rounded to two decimal places.

(a) If you choose one student at random, what is the probability that the student's score is between 490 and 500 ? Use Table A, or software to calculate your answer.

(Enter your answer rounded to four decimal places.)

probability:

(b) You sample 25 students. What is the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of their average score ?¯? (Enter your answer rounded to two decimal places.)

standard deviation:

(c) What is the probability that the mean score of your sample is between 490 and 500 ? (Enter your answer rounded to four decimal places.)

probability:

STATE: How heavy a load (in pounds) is needed to pull apart pieces of Douglas fir 44 inches long and 1.51.5 inches square? Given are data from students doing a laboratory exercise.

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We are willing to regard the wood pieces prepared for the lab session as an SRS of all similar pieces of Douglas fir. Engineers also commonly assume that characteristics of materials vary Normally. Suppose that the strength of pieces of wood like these follows a Normal distribution with standard deviation 3000 pounds.

PLAN: We will estimate μ by giving a 90% confidence interval.

SOLVE: Find the sample mean ?¯ . (Enter your answer rounded to the nearest whole number.)

?¯=

Give a 90% confidence interval, [low,high] , for the mean load required to pull the wood apart. (Enter your answers rounded to the nearest whole number.)

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Short answer question:

Mr. Jones needs to send a shipment from China to the United States. His boss asks him to prepare a set of potential crash options for accomplishing this in 5 days, 4 days, 3 days, 2 days, and 1 day. He calls an air transport company and finds out that the shipment can be flown in one day for a cost of $1000. Then he calls an ocean shipping company and finds out that it can be transported in 5 days for a cost of $200. He uses these two numbers to find the slope: it costs $800 more to reach the US 4 days earlier, or $200 per day. Then, he uses the slope to calculate the cost of a 4-day trip ($400), a 3- day trip ($600), and a 2-day trip ($800). What is wrong with Mr. Jones’s approach?

Rolfe Company (a U.S.-based company) has a subsidiary in Nigeria where the local currency unit is the naira (NGN). On December 31, 2019, the subsidiary had the following balance sheet (amounts are in thousands [000s]):

The subsidiary acquired the inventory on August 1, 2019, and the land and building in 2013. It issued the common stock in 2011. During 2020, the following transactions took place:

The U.S dollar ($) exchange rates for 1 NGN are as follows:

1. Assuming the NGN is the subsidiary's functional currency, what is the translation adjustment determined solely for 2020?

2. Assuming the U.S.$ is the subsidiary's functional currency, what is the remeasurement gain or loss determined solely for 2020?

(Input all amounts as positive. Enter amounts in whole dollars.)

a .Positive translation adjustment ？

b. Remeasurement gain ？

Thank you

This startup is using AI to give workers a “productivity score” by Will Douglas Heaven

1.what point does the articles make?

2. feeling or takeaway about this course? how you might apply the information, etc. (Text analytics for marketing)

[For Indian companies]

Is the mail invoice enough as the invoice for a food delivery startup?

Is there a need of giving printed invoice for all customers?

Can we use that invoice for our auditing purposes?

Elaborate.

If the answer is a NO, elaborate the other options that can be chosen.

1. Compare what the HR systems might look for at Wal-Mart, a new web startup company, and a law firm. How would you achieve a sustainable competitive advantage through HRM systems in each of these firms? Based on the work of Napier