I need this for 2006-2016..............Think about the 10-year historical period you chose for your final project. Identify trade policies of the time and discuss the following points: What are the main goods and services the United States traded internationally? What trade barriers were in place during that decade? What are two pros and two cons of the trade barriers used?

Using the data in the following? table, and the fact that the correlation of A and B is 0.02?, calculate the volatility? (standard deviation) of a portfolio that is 80% invested in stock A and 20% invested in stock B.

             Stock A   Stock B
2005       -12           16
2006        13           20
2007          8           7
2008         -1         -1
2009          5        -12
2010          6          15

The standard deviation of the portfolio is?

Consider an ATM of a bank located at a metro station. Only one person can use the machine, so a queue forms when two or more customers are present. The metro station is limited in size and can hold only five people. When there are more than five people, arriving customers will not enter the queue. Statistics indicates that the average time between arrivals is 30 seconds, whereas the time for service averages 24 seconds. Both times follow exponential distribution.

a. Draw the graph representation of this CTMC.

b. Find the proportion of time that the ATM is idle.

c. Find the proportion of time that the ATM has 2 persons in total.

d. Find the proportion of time that the ATM is busy.

e. Find the proportion of customer that obtain immediate service.

f. Find the proportion of a customer who arrive and find the system is full.

g. Find the average number of customers in the ATM system.

h. Find the average time spent in the system.

The major advantage of using structs is to make the C++ code simpler, easier to read, and easier to work with. After completing this assignment, students will be able to: • use structs to create and/or introduce new custom data types • implement structs to group fixed numbers of pieces of data of different types • implement structs within structs • chaining using the dot operators to access nested fields • copy an entire structure • create an array of a structured data type • combine structs and arrays with one another Task Description: A Decoration Store Manager wants you to create a program to keep track some of the best-selling items. You are given 4 files: Furnitire.txt, Art.txt, Fabric.txt, and Book.txt. Your task is to create an array of structs for each file to hold the entries. The first line of each file will be a number indicating how many entries are in the file. Furnitire.txt 1. Name 2. Color 3. Amount of Inventory 4. Date Created (month:day:year) 5. Price Art.txt 1. Name 2. Price 3. Amount of Inventory 4. Date Created (month:day:year) 5. Dimensions of Art (height:width:depth) Fabric.txt 1. Name 2. Color 3. Amount of Inventory 4. Price Book.txt 1. Name 2. Hardcover? (1 for yes 0 for no) 3. Amount of Pages 4. Price 5. Amount of Inventory 6. Date Published (month:day:year) Write a C++ program to help the Decoration Store Manager. Create four arrays of structs named Furniture, Art, Fabric, and Book. The size of the array should be read in from the file. Structs should be created to hold the variables that won’t fit a standard data type. The main() function of your program should be very simple. The main function should be a collection of variables declaration and functions call. You will need to use four different functions to read the data from the four files. You can add more functions if you want. You are to give the user the ability to print out each section’s records (Furniture, Art, Fabric, and Book). Do NOT use global variables.

These are the files given:

1) Art.txt

12
WaterColorPainting 25.95 20 07:02:2015 20:20:1
AcrylicPainting 10.22 89 06:15:2014 12:14:1
Photo 2.50 4 06:25:2017 10:10:1
LatexPainting 22.49 11 08:29:2015 18:13:1
PencilDrawing 5.25 56 05:01:2010 12:10:1
ClaySculpture 20.25 16 04:19:2011 12:12:3
GlassSculpture 15.40 40 09:05:2002 4:18:15
PlasticSculpture 2.96 22 05:20:2010 10:10:10
WoodenSculpture 27.89 9 03:11:2016 14:12:4
MetalSculpture 14.65 1 06:24:2013 18:15:7
ConcreteSculpture 3.69 0 03:29:2016 19:28:4
MarbleSculpture 29.99 16 06:15:2013 13:20:7

2) Book.txt

16
PrideandPrejudice 1 209 10.99 10 04:01:2010
ToKillaMockingbird 0 276 10.99 3 03:10:2013
TheGreatGatsby 1 257 7.99 3 06:21:2000
JaneEyre 1 294 10.99 8 06:01:2005
TheCatcherintheRye 1 171 10.99 2 07:06:2006
LittleWomen 0 354 10.99 3 02:26:2008
HuckleberryFin 1 269 7.99 2 02:27:2015
MobyDick 0 278 10.99 1 07:13:2012
AliceinWonderland 1 494 10.99 7 08:17:2015
LordoftheFlies 1 133 10.99 1 06:06:2016
AnimalFarm 1 119 7.99 5 03:22:2015
GreatExpectations 0 287 10.99 9 06:13:2013
1984 0 275 10.99 8 04:14:2017
GreatExpectations 1 360 10.99 7 07:23:2016
Frakenstein 0 146 10.99 3 03:20:2010
TheScarletLetter 1 248 10.99 5 02:28:2014

3) Fabric.txt

10
WoolRug white 10 24.20
NaturalFiberRug red 21 18.65
Drapes brown 15 10.60
DoorMat green 50 21.20
TableMat red 60 5.95
CottonRug white 10 14.26
SyntheticRug blue 15 18.10
PlaceMat brown 26 2.55
ClothNapkins white 18 3.05
Curtains grey 28 12.32

4)

14
Table brown 10 01:16:2000 100.00
Chair black 20 05:14:2006 25.20
Couch brown 5 10:21:2015 325.50
LoveSeat yellow 3 09:08:2011 145.70
RockingChair red 15 06:03:2013 45.60
Desk brown 5 11:10:2004 50.00
Lamp blue 8 12:06:2014 10.95
Light grey 10 06:12:2003 11.00
Bed red 7 07:18:2006 150.00
HighChair white 11 08:22:2007 25.60
FootRest brown 5 08:23:2015 15.95
CoffeeTable white 0 06:25:2016 57.10
BedsideTable black 2 04:23:2015 45.23
Stool brown 25 08:26:2014 20.00

3. See the table below that was assigned to you as homework in a previous week.  Suppose that the market price is $13 per unit.

a. What quantity will the firm produce? Why?

b. At that quantity level, what profits or losses will this firm make?

c. The breakeven price is the point at which the price equals the minimum ATC. At what price would this firm break even?

d. The textbook indicates that if product price equals the minimum of AVC or lower, the firm must shut down because at any quantity that the firm produces, the revenue that the firm gets is not even enough to pay the variable costs of production.  What is the shutdown price, in the table above?

4. How is a monopoly different from perfect competition?

5. How does the quantity produced and price charged by a monopoly compare to that of a perfectly competitive firm?

Following is financial information describing the six operating segments that make up Fairfield, Inc. (in thousands):

Consider the following questions independently. None of the six segments has a primarily financial nature.

a. What minimum revenue amount must any one segment generate to be of significant size to require disaggregated disclosure?

b. If only Red, Blue, and Green necessitate separate disclosure, is Fairfield disclosing disaggregated data for enough segments?

c. What volume of revenues must a single customer generate to necessitate disclosing the existence of a major customer?

d. If each of these six segments has a profit or loss (in thousands) as follows, which warrants separate disclosure? (Select all that apply.)

Researchers want to examine the effect of scent on memory. A total of 9 people were recruited for the study. Each person randomly assigned to one of the three experimental groups. Each person was asked to read a passage from a book. A week later, each study participant was asked to recall as much information as they could from the previously read passage.  Researchers determined a score for each subject representing the facts that have been correctly recalled. The data are available in Table 1.

Group 1: Scent is present during a passage reading and during the passage recall

Group 2: No scent is present in either the passage reading or the passage recall

Group 3: Scent is present during the passage reading only

The purpose of this study is to identify whether there are differences between the mean number of facts recalled by the experimental group one week after reading the original passage (α = 0.05).

For this question, conduct a one-way ANOVA by hand (showing all your calculations) to compare the means of these three samples. Remember to follow the steps of hypothesis testing and show your calculations. Also, create a one-way ANOVA summary table showing your results of the analysis (see table 2 for an example).

Make sure to take a photo/scan your work and paste the scanned work or photo to your Word document.

Table 1.

Passage recall scores by group, individual group means, and overall mean.

Table 2.

One-way ANOVA Summary Table

International Business

Chapter 12 - Management Focus: Ford’s Global Strategy

Summary

The Management Focus describes the changes in U.S. automaker Ford’s global strategy after former Boeing executive Alan Mulally was appointed CEO in 2006. At the time, Ford produced models targeted for specific regions of the world. Under Mulally’s leadership, Ford implemented its One Ford strategy that uses just a few car platforms to serve the entire world. Discussion of the closing can revolve around the following questions:  

QUESTION 1: How would you characterize the strategy for competing internationally that Ford was pursuing prior to the arrival of Alan Mullaly in 2006? What were the benefits of this strategy? What were the costs? Why was Ford pursuing this strategy?

QUESTION 2: What strategy is Mullaly trying to get Ford to pursue with his One Ford initiative? What are the benefits of this strategy? Can you see any drawbacks?

QUESTION 3: Does the One Ford initiative imply that Ford will now ignore national and regional differences in demand?