Analyze the following costs and measures of activity in Snowtown, USA that are listed below in this table. Each one of the costs must be classified as a variable cost or as a fixed cost for this particular analysis of cost behavior. There is only to be one answer in the Cost Behavior column -- either variable or fixed.  

VERY IMPORTANT: There is only one final correct answer to each item in this list , so make sure you only type the word “variable” in the column, when that is your final answer to an item, or only type the word “fixed” in the column for an item if that is your final answer.

Question 3: a) Provide a definition for variable costs, and then explain how managers use variable costs to enable more effective decision making. Enter your final answer to this particular item in the space below this sentence.

Question 3: b) Provide a definition for fixed costs, and then explain how managers use fixed costs to inform decision making processes. Enter your final answer to this particular item in the space below this sentence.

Question 3: c) Analyze the information in this table and determine the correct cost behavior classification for each one of the separate items included in this list. Enter your final answer in the third column of the table for each separate item to indicate whether the cost is mainly a fixed cost or a variable cost with respect to the measure of activity listed next to it. This means the cost behavior category is either a variable cost or a fixed cost, and not both.

The patient recovery time from a particular surgical procedure is normally distributed with a mean of 3 days and a standard deviation of 1.9 days. Let X be the recovery time for a randomly selected patient. Round all answers to 4 decimal places where possible.

a. What is the distribution of X? X ~ N(,)

b. What is the median recovery time? days

c. What is the Z-score for a patient that took 4.4 days to recover?

d. What is the probability of spending more than 2.5 days in recovery?

e. What is the probability of spending between 2.9 and 3.7 days in recovery?

f. The 90th percentile for recovery times is days.

Private nonprofit four-year colleges charge, on average, $27,166 per year in tuition and fees. The standard deviation is $7,402. Assume the distribution is normal. Let X be the cost for a randomly selected college. Round all answers to 4 decimal places where possible.

a. What is the distribution of X? X ~ N(,)

b. Find the probability that a randomly selected Private nonprofit four-year college will cost less than 25,605 per year.

c. Find the 60th percentile for this distribution. $ (Round to the nearest dollar.)

The average number of words in a romance novel is 64,416 and the standard deviation is 17,228. Assume the distribution is normal. Let X be the number of words in a randomly selected romance novel. Round all answers to 4 decimal places where possible.

a. What is the distribution of X? X ~ N(,)

b. Find the proportion of all novels that are between 59,248 and 71,308 words.

c. The 80th percentile for novels is words. (Round to the nearest word)

d. The middle 50% of romance novels have from words to words. (Round to the nearest word)

According to a study done by UCB students, the height for Martian adult males is normally distributed with an average of 64 inches and a standard deviation of 2.4 inches. Suppose one Martian adult male is randomly chosen. Let X = height of the individual. Round all answers to 4 decimal places where possible.

a. What is the distribution of X? X ~ N(,)

b. Find the probability that the person is between 59.3 and 61.7 inches.

c. The middle 40% of Martian heights lie between what two numbers?
Low: inches
High: inches

Assignment: In this project, you’ll create a security infrastructure design document for a fictional organization. The security services and tools you describe in the document must be able to meet the needs of the organization. Your work will be evaluated according to how well you met the organization’s requirements.

About the organization: This fictional organization has a small, but growing, employee base, with 50 employees in one small office. The company is an online retailer of the world's finest artisanal, hand-crafted widgets. They've hired you on as a security consultant to help bring their operations into better shape.

Organization requirements: As the security consultant, the company needs you to add security measures to the following systems:

An external website permitting users to browse and purchase widgets

An internal intranet website for employees to use

Secure remote access for engineering employees

Reasonable, basic firewall rules

Wireless coverage in the office

Reasonably secure configurations for laptops

Since this is a retail company that will be handling customer payment data, the organization would like to be extra cautious about privacy. They don't want customer information falling into the hands of an attacker due to malware infections or lost devices.

Engineers will require access to internal websites, along with remote, command line access to their workstations.

Submission: You should write your document using a text editor or word processor (e.g., Google Docs, Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, etc.). You should upload your document in PDF format (i.e., my_submission.pdf). Please do not upload your submission using proprietary software extensions, like .docx or .pptx.

Step-By-Step Assignment Instructions

You’ll create a security infrastructure design document for a fictional organization. Your plan will be evaluated according to how well you met the organization's requirements. Points will be awarded based on how well you met these requirements, considering the security implications of your choices.

The following elements should be incorporated into your plan:

Authentication system

External website security

Internal website security

Remote access solution

Firewall and basic rules recommendations

Wireless security

VLAN configuration recommendations

Laptop security configuration

Application policy recommendations

Security and privacy policy recommendations

Intrusion detection or prevention for systems containing customer data

The purpose of this assignment is to assess your understanding of economic externalities, public goods and how they are paid for. Write a 1 to 1.5 page (500-750 words) essay. In your paper, discuss the definition of externality, why government intervention is usually required to address the economic failure that results, and how taxes are used to fund this.

Use your textbook and at least one other reliable source to find information. The online library or Google Scholar are both good options.

Structure your paper as follows:

1. Intro paragraph (5 points) – provide overview of the information you will cover, including describing how externalities, market failures, and taxes are related.

2. Body paragraphs (15 points) – detailed description of each of the following as they relate to your thesis.
   1. Taxes
      1. Clearly define and give an example of each type of tax approaches: proportional, regressive, progressive. The examples do not need to be actual taxes, just taxes that you realistically create to give examples of the three types of taxation.
   2. Externalities
      1. Define the concept of economic externality.
      2. Give an example of a positive and a negative economic externality.
      3. Why is government intervention generally required to adjust for economic externalities?
   3. Public Goods
      1. Give an example of a public good and explain why it is a public good (think about the excludability and rivalry of the good).
      2. Why do public goods need to be paid for via taxes?
      3. Explain the Free Rider problem, and how it is addressed via taxes.

3. Summary (3 points)
   1. Restate your thesis and provide a conclusion about your main points.

4. References page (3 points)
   1. Provide a list of references; must include author, title, publication title, publication year, and source or retrieval information.

Content requirements: (3 points)

• Content should be in your own words, with 20% or less from outside sources
• In-text citations used for any information from outside sources, should include author and publication year
• Quotation marks enclose any information used word-for-word.

Writing mechanics: (6 points)

• Times 12 point font, double-spaced text, indent first line of each paragraph
• Proofread and correct all errors in capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and spelling

You work as a financial analyst and you will identify a potential investment. You will then use NPV, PP, PI, and IRR investment criteria to evaluate the opportunity. Finally, you will make a recommendation to the board of the directors of the company.

If you make any assumption in your analysis, please specify and explain it. You can Google “business for sale” to find the investment opportunities or find them in a local newspaper’s classified section.

You evaluation report will include business description, assumptions, data sources, analytical methods, and finally your conclusion of the business value.

Please submit only the word document, not the excel file. You may copy and paste the excel file or take a photo shot and include in the word file.

Special Occasion Restaurant & Bar

Asking Price: $2,100,000

Cash Flow: $271,000

Gross Revenue: $1,000,000

EBITDA: $171,000

FF&E: N/A

Inventory: N/A

Real Estate: $1,400,000

Established: 1990

Business Description

Fabulous Opportunity in a Great Location

This Restaurant & Bar was founded in 1990. For the past 28 years, the Chef/Owner has been feeding customers, body and soul, on the simple premise of providing homemade Italian food in a warm and comfortable atmosphere. Rooted in her rich Italian heritage, the Chef's reputation is second to none. She has been selected as one of the best female chefs in NJ by USA Today. Her pasta is homemade, and she uses fresh ingredients, many are grown in the Garden State. This great tradition can be passed on to her successor.

Detailed Information

Real Estate:

Owned

Included in asking price

Building SF:

3,000

Employees:

17

Facilities:

Restaurant & Bar on a standalone property with off-street parking. The building has an apartment on the second floor available for rent. There is a second building suitable for storage or an artist work space. The real estate includes the liquor license.

Competition:

This restaurant & bar is in an affluent area with daily visitors from Philadelphia and New York.

Growth & Expansion:

The restaurant is only open five nights a week, Tuesday thru Saturday. There is an opportunity to serve dinners two more nights per week and add Saturday and Sunday lunch/brunches.

Support & Training:

Owner will stay on to train the new owner and teach the recipes.

Reason for Selling:

Retirement

Note: You need to show your work. Be sure to upload your well-documented Excel and to make note in this file how you arrived at your answers. If you choose to do the work by hand, Microsoft Word has an equation editor. Go to “Insert” and “Equation” on newer versions of Word. On older versions, go to “Insert” and “Object” and “Microsoft Equation.”

Chapter 10 (Excel file included):

Scores in the first and fourth (final) rounds for a sample of 20 golfers who competed in the PGA tournaments are included in the attached Excel file. Suppose you would like to determine if the mean score for the first round of a PGA Tour event is significantly different than the mean score for the fourth and final round. You are curious: Does the pressure of playing in the final round cause scores to go up? Or does the increased player concentration cause scores to come down?

1. Use to test for a statistically significant difference between the populations means for the first- and fourth-round scores. What is the p-value? What is your conclusion?
2. What is the point estimate for the difference between the two population means? For which round is the population mean score lower?
3. Develop a 90% confidence interval estimate for the difference between the population means. Use the single population methodology where the confidence interval is given by . Notice that 0 is in this interval: what does this say about the statistical significance of the difference in the means?

Please read the following scenario and then create the deliverable listed below, 1) Use case diagram 2) Interaction diagram 3) Create the core and supporting classes of the RIM (Entity, Role, Role Relationship, Participation, Act, Act Relationship) similar to the one in slide 20 in the live session Note: Copy the MS VISIO diagrams and paste them onto a word document and then submit only one word file to the assignment submission link. Scenario Mrs. Annie Nuclear showed symptoms such as sudden onset of fever, headache, and stiff neck for the past 3 days. Annie Nuclear suddenly fell down and lost consciousness and 911 was called. Your solution will be addressing the following section. The message models (design part) will be for the whole scenario. The HL7 v2.x or v3 message implementation can be limited to one interaction mentioned in this scenario. After admitting into the ER, she was treated with mild antibiotics and samples of blood and cerebrospinal fluid were sent for testing. Annie Nuclear was then moved to an isolation ward at the Greenville hospital. Dr. Admit, the clinician for Annie Nuclear, has not yet received the laboratory results, but based on clinical findings (ER) he believes this to be a suspect case of Meningococcal Meningitis (MM)[1]. The doctor sends an investigation request to the local public health unit indicating that lab tests have been ordered but no results are available yet. Nightingale working at the local public health unit accepts the investigation request. She creates a “suspect” case for Annie and then follows up by sending the hospital a care plan request message. This message recommends that the hospital place Annie on respiratory isolation until 24 hours after the commencement of treatment. Nightingale goes to the hospital to see Annie and initiates contact tracing. Annie identifies sixteen people (all within her extended family) with whom she’s recently shared meals. Nightingale records these individuals as close contacts of this case. In the meantime Nightingale receives confirmation of MM from the Laboratory through Laboratory Result Notification. The Lab has sent these results to Public Health because this is a notifiable condition. Dr. Admit treats Annie Nuclear for MM and immediately administers antibiotics; since the MM was diagnosed at a very early stage, Annie Nuclear made a thorough recovery.

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Question
conduct an in-depth evaluation and assessment on Glassroots inc

Identify the vision, mission, and purpose of this organization.

1. From the information that you gather, identify key strategic issues on

--- fundraising and

--how to get more volunteers organization.

Answer

Fundraising:

The fundraising will have difficulties since this is a very niche initiative and it involves specific people with very specific interests which involve creativity in glass making or glass art. This form of art, though special is very niche and has a very limited number of consumer base hence limiting their chances of finding appropriate people to raise funds from. The niche level of these art forms is the reason behind the key strategic issues of this initiative.

Glassroots Inc can make it a point to increase their presence in the events which are similar to that of the work which Grassroots is involved in, with this strategy they will be in a position to meet people who share the like interests and hence it will be a great opportunity to increase the network and making it deeper hence allowing a greater reach of the idea of Glassroots Inc. This strategy will help in promoting this idea through word of mouth and hence would pose great opportunities to find the fundraisers for the idea of Glassroots Inc.

How to get more Volunteers:

To get more volunteers on these art forms which has a niche consumer base it is imperative that one spread the knowledge and awareness about these art forms to spark off the interest in the prospective users. Having different promotional activities such as conducting workshops, visiting the corporate office, etc can help in kickstarting the promotional activities and hence gaining more users from these promotional activities. using word of the mouth strategy becomes very useful in such scenarios.

it is possible to use social media for getting more followers for the idea of Grassroots. The social media is a very good strategy to reach the people around the globe and hence posing the entire globe as the prospective volunteers for the Grassroots. By geo targetting and demographic targetting of the advertisements for reaching the most likely prospective clients and thus it is possible to reach the maximum audience with minimal cost of using the digital platform. Hence using the power of social platforms for gaining more volunteers can be attached.

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