List the main members of the set of techniques known as the Seven Tools of Total Quality Management (TQM). Then, mention two out of this list which are considered key techniques for defining processes and identifying sources of variation. At which stage in a CQI project life-cycle are these two key techniques needed the most?

a) Find the conditional probability of the indicated event when two fair dice (one red and one green) are rolled. The sum is 7, given that the green one is either 6 or 2.

b) Find the conditional probability of the indicated event when two fair dice (one red and one green) are rolled. The red one is 3, given that the sum is 5.

Firms HL and LL are identical except for their financial leverage ratios and the interest rates they pay on debt. Each has $28 million in invested capital, has $5.6 million of EBIT, and is in the 40% federal-plus-state tax bracket. Firm HL, however, has a debt-to-capital ratio of 50% and pays 11% interest on its debt, whereas LL has a 20% debt-to-capital ratio and pays only 8% interest on its debt. Neither firm uses preferred stock in its capital structure.

Calculate the return on invested capital (ROIC) for each firm. Round your answers to two decimal places.

ROIC for firm LL is

ROIC for firm HL is

Calculate the rate of return on equity (ROE) for each firm. Round your answers to two decimal places.

ROE for firm LL is

ROE for firm HL is

Observing that HL has a higher ROE, LL's treasurer is thinking of raising the debt-to-capital ratio from 20% to 60% even though that would increase LL's interest rate on all debt to 15%. Calculate the new ROE for LL. Round your answer to two decimal places.

1. It has been proven that the time it takes for taxpayers to fill out the income tax return form follows a normal distribution with an average of 100 minutes and a standard deviation of 30 minutes.

1. What is the probability of a randomly chosen taxpayer taking 70 to 130 minutes to complete this form?
2. Find the value of K such that 5% of taxpayers take more than K minutes to complete the form.
3. 50,000 taxpayers are chosen at random. Approximately how many takes more than an hour to complete the form?
4. 7 taxpayers are chosen at random. What is the probability that between 3 and 5 of them will take more than two hours to leave the form?

The following information has been taken from the statement of financial position of Cos plc (Cos), a HK listed company:

The ordinary shares of Cos have a nominal value of HK$5 per share and a current market price of HK$31 per share.

The 6% preference shares of Cos have a nominal value of HK$10 per share and a current market price of HK$12 per share.

The bonds have a nominal value of HK$1000 and a current market price of HK$1035. They were issued seven years ago at a low coupon rate of 4% and are redeemable in three years’ time at a 10% premium to the nominal value.

The risk-free rate of return is 3.5% per annum and the equity risk premium is 6.8% per annum. Cos has an equity beta of 1.25.

Cos pays corporation tax at a rate of 20% per annum.

Required:

1. Calculate the after-tax Weighted Average cost of Capital (WACC) of Cos. You must state all assumptions and show all workings

2. From a theoretical basis discuss when it would be correct to use the WACC in appraising future projects.

3. Describe the key features of any two of the sources of long-term finance used by Cos.

What is the perimeter of the shape made from the file datatest4.txt whose contents are shown below (just give to two decimal (places)? JAVA!

-3, 9

-8, 7

-12, 4

-6, -2

-4, -6

2, -8

6, -5

10, -3

8, 5

4, 8

he Kali Company uses the periodic inventory system for its merchandise inventory. The June 1 inventory for one of the items in the merchandise inventory consisted of 60 units with a unit cost of $45. Transactions for this item during June were as follows: June 5 Purchased 40 units @ $50 per unit 13 Sold 50 units @ $95 per unit 25 Purchased 40 units @ $53 per unit 29 Sold 20 units@ $110 per unit Required a. Compute the cost of goods sold and the ending inventory cost for the month of June using the weighted-average cost method. Round the cost per unit to 3 decimal places and round your final answers to the nearest dollar. b. Compute the cost of goods sold and the ending inventory cost for the month of June using the first-in, first-out method. c. Compute the cost of goods sold and the ending inventory cost for the month of June using the last-in, first-out method. a. Weighted Average Ending Inventory Answer Cost of goods Sold Answer b. First-in, First-out: Ending Inventory Answer Cost of Goods Sold: Answer c. Last-in, first-out: Ending Inventory Answer 0 Cost of Goods Sold: Answer

     6.   Which of the following compounds is phenol?

     7.   Which of the following compounds is a hydrocarbon?

     8.   Which of the following correctly describes the two aromatic ring substituents in the xylenes?

   9.             What is the correct IUPAC name of the following compound?

Johnson Industries finances its projects with 40 percent debt, 10 percent preferred stock, and 50 percent common stock.

What is the company's weighted average cost of capital (WACC)? Express your answer in percentage (without the % sign) and round it to two decimal places.

Question

Objective:

The objective of this lab exercise is to give you practice in programming with one of Python’s most widely used “container” data types -- the List (commonly called an “Array” in most other programming languages). More specifically you will demonstrate how to:

1. Declare list objects
2. Access a list for storing (i.e., writing) into a cell (a.k.a., element or component) and retrieving (i.e., reading) a value from a list cell/element/component
3. Iterate through a list looking for specific values using a for…in loop repetition construct
4. Pass an entire list argument to a function
5. Process a list parameter received by a function

Discussion:     

For this exercise you will be simulating a Weather Station responsible for recording hourly temperatures and reporting on certain characteristics (e.g., average temperature) from your recordings. You will also be expanding on your experience in creating functions and passing them more complex parameters (i.e., complete list arguments – sometimes empty and sometimes full).

Specifications:

DDI&T a Python program to input, store, and process hourly temperatures for each hour of the day (i.e., 24 temperatures). Your program should be divided logically into the following parts:

1. In function main() declare an empty List container:

         HourlyTemperatures = []    

2. Pass the empty HourlyTemperatures list to a function,

GetTemperatures(HourlyTemperatures)

         This function must interactively prompt for and input temperatures for each of the 24 hours in a day (0 through 23). For each temperature that is input, verify that its value lies in the range of minus 50 degrees and plus 130 degrees (i.e., validate your input values). If any value is outside the acceptable range, ask the user to re-enter the value until it is within this range before going on to the next temperature (HINT: use a nested loop (e.g., Python’s equivalent to a do-while loop) that exits only when a value in the specified range has been entered). Store each validated temperature in its corresponding element of the list container passed as a parameter to the function (Hint: Look at the ‘append(…)’ function that can be called on a list container).

3. Next pass the filled list container to a function,

ComputeAverageTemp(HourlyTemperatures)

         This function computes the average temperature of all the temperatures in the list and returns this average to the calling function.

4. Finally, pass the filled list container and the computed average temperature to another function,

                  DisplayTemperatures(HourlyTemperatures, AverageTemp)

         which displays the values of your temperature list in a columnar format followed by the values for the high temperature, low temperature, and average temperature for the day.  NOTE: If you want to create separate function(s) to find and return the high and low temperature values, then feel free to do so!

The resulting output should look something like this:

Hour                          Temperature

00:00                                42

01:00                                42

. . . . .                                . . . // Your program output must include all of these too!

22:00                                46

23:00                                48

High Temperature:          68

Low Temperature:           42

Average Temperature:    57.4

5.      Since you have several created functions to perform each of the major steps of your solution, your main(): function should be quite simple. The pseudo code for main() might look something like this:

                  main()

                       #declare any necessary variable(s) and HourlyTemperatures list

                       while user-wants-to-process-another-days’-worth-of-temperatures

                           call GetTemperatures(HourlyTemperatures)

                                 call ComputeAverageTemp(HourlyTemperatures)

                                 call DisplayTemperatures(HourlyTemperatures, AverageTemperature)

                                 ask if user want to process another days’ worth of temperatures

6.      Test your program with at least two (2) different sets of temperatures. Make sure you enter values to adequately test your temperature-validation code (e.g., temperatures below –50 and above +130 degrees).

Deliverable(s):

Your deliverable should be a Word document with screenshots showing the sample code you have created, and discuss the issues that you had for this project related to AWS and/or Python IDE and how you solved them.

Turn in the properly documented source listing of your program and complete outputs from at least TWO (2) test “runs”. Additionally, turn in screen captures of some of your interactive inputs demonstrating that your program properly detects invalid inputs and prompts the user to re-enter the temperature(s).