A company asks you to design a controller for a basketball machine that will indicate that a player has won a game if they get a total of 3 points. There are two sensors in this machine. One in the backboard and on the inside of the orange rim. If a player shoots a shot and the ball hits the backboard and the ball goes through the rim, then the play will gain 1 point. If the player shoots the ball and it doesn't hit the backboard and the ball just goes through the rim, then the play will gain 2 points. If the player hits the backboard and the ball does not go through the rim, then the player will lose 1 point. The total score can only go down to zero and cannot become negative. If the ball does not go through the rim or hit backboard, then it will count as a no shot and nothing will happen. Once the player scores three points, the game ends, and a light will indicate that the player has won.

Part A: Make a state table that describes each state in plain English and describe each binary value used.

Part B: Make a state diagram.

Park C: Make a k-map.

Part D: Make the synchronous machine schematic.

You can use either a Moore or Mealy machine and either a J-K Flip Flop or a D Flip Flop.

I was thinking about using 2-bit binary but then I got stuck so I switched to 3-bit binary and what I have looks good to me but now making the k-map is making me doubt what I have so here I am asking for help.

The research around Leona’s Tacos has created quite a buzz and business is great. Leona is planning on expanding her menu and she’s going to start with a new taco filling. She is considering her own black bean mix “Savor” and Hadey’s famous braise of seitan “Praise”. She naturally performs a blind taste test with randomly selected judges from Avocado Park. Each judge is served a taco filled with either “Savor” or “Praise” and asked to assess the experience using a rubric that results in a score from 0-100. The results can be found in the Excel file “Savor v Praise.xlsx” on MyLab.

1. Identify the populations of interest.

2. Identify the variable of interest.

3. What type of variable is being studied here?

4. What would be a suitable parameter for determining if the taco

   filling receive different scores?

5. Write a null hypothesis for Leona’s study.

6. Write an alternative hypothesis for Leona’s study.

7. Explain what a Type II Error would look like in this context.

8. What conditions will need to be met in order for Leona to

   calculate a P-Value?

9. Are any assumptions necessary to meet the conditions in question

   7?

10. Calculate the P-Value for the hypotheses you wrote in

questions 5 and 6.
11.What should Leona’s decision be?
12. Write a detailed summary of Leona’s conclusions.

64   95
72   77
83   85
75   77
88   82
70   75
71   99
91   80
71   76
83   73
59   73
79   72
63   88
81   86
69   83
87   83

Introduction

The course project is a series of elements where you will examine the current standing of an organization’s compensation system. In the final element of the training program, you will provide recommendations to the organization on how the compensation program can be improved.

Directions

Students will conduct an analysis on the current state of the compensation system and address the current pay structure used. Reference should be made to job-based and person-based structure. Analysis should reference sources of information for job analysis, job evaluation, pay design, and pay levels.

The body of the paper will be 4-5 pages. This does not include extraneous pages like title page, reference page, appendices. APA formatting standards are required. A minimum of 5 scholarly resources need to be used. An example of a scholarly resource can be an interview with an HR professional or a peer reviewed article from a Park University Library Journal Database. Course materials and personal experience do not count. A formal third person tone is required.

Supplemental information (e.g. worksheets that are currently being used) can be presented in Appendices but do not count toward the body of the paper.

Note: Recommendations should not be made at this point – you will make these in Unit 8. This is an analysis of current standing. Keep in mind however, if an organization doesn’t have a set structure, the paper doesn’t end at that point. Student needs to include a discussion of the different methods that could be used. Again, recommendations will be made

Please also include at least 5 references

I need new and unique answers, please. (Use your own words, don't copy and paste), Please Use your keyboard (Don't use handwriting) Thank you...

Question 1: [5 Points]

For each of the following systems, choose a suitable architecture style, then justify your choice.

1. An aquarium contains exotic tropical fish. The fish require the water temperature to be between 20 C - 23 C otherwise the fish will get sick. An automated heater is used to maintain the water temperature within that range. It turns on when the water gets too cold. It turns off when the water reaches the desired temperature.

2. A university admission processing system. After all applicants have submitted their application, their application would be reviewed by the university, the college, then finally the department. Applicants would be notified of the admission decision after all admission boards have reviewed all applications.

3. A security check-in system which provides face, fingerprint, voice, height, weight and other document identification admission means. They cooperate together to provide authentication integrity. The system has its recognition rules and preinstalled facts about trusted and target people.

4. Travel agency application which helps customers make travel plans including air, hotel, car rental, attraction visits, and time schedules. This application makes use of existing web services of airlines, car rentals, hotels, and attractions.

5. An application that needs to be portable and that can be easily divided into application-specific and platform-specific portions.

In your opinion is the US debt a problem for the United States or not? Given that monetary policy has an effect on interest rates, should monetary policy work with fiscal policy to reduce the impacts of debt? What are the pros and cons of monetary policy and fiscal policy working together? (Answer question based on the article below)

Article:

As Congress allocates trillions of dollars to support businesses and individuals impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, some project US debt skyrocketing to historical highs. This adds fuel to a long-running question: Does America’s growing debt load spell future trouble? In our view, focusing solely on the debt’s size doesn’t tell the whole story. By looking at the debt question differently, we think investors can defuse concerns about America’s allegedly ticking time bomb.

Even before the coronavirus dominated headlines, some worried about big deficits adding to America’s debt. In early May, US Treasury data show $25.1 trillion in total federal government debt outstanding. [i] While this figure includes intra-governmental holdings (i.e., money the government owes itself), even stripping this away leaves net public debt at a still-huge $19.1 trillion—nearly 2.5 times the amount on January 1, 2010. [ii]

In isolation, that big number doesn’t mean much. So to put this figure into perspective, many economists compare a country’s debt to its GDP. At the end of 2019, net public debt was 79.2% of US GDP—up from 52.3% a decade earlier and the biggest since the late 1940s. [iii] Moreover, coronavirus’ impact is almost assured to push the ratio far higher. Between Q1’s -4.8% annualized GDP decline (with worse likely in Q2) and rising debt as the government funds its coronavirus response, America’s debt-to-GDP ratio could exceed its post–World War II high of 106.1% in the not-so-distant future. [iv]

Large debt-to-GDP ratios inspire comparisons to countries like Greece, which defaulted multiple times in the past decade. But even these ratios alone don’t mean problems loom. What matters more: a country’s ability to meet interest payments. Governments don’t use GDP—an annual flow of economic activity—to meet those obligations. They use tax revenue. In fiscal year 2019, US interest payments accounted for about 10.8% of tax revenues. [v] This figure has been rising over the past 4 years, but it remains well below the 15%–18% range in effect during most of the 1980s–1990s. [vi] America had no trouble servicing its debt during these two decades. The economy boomed.

With Treasury yields historically low, many acknowledge financing debt today isn’t onerous—especially since the Treasury gets to refinance maturing debt at a cheaper rate. On May 5, 2010, the Treasury sold $24 billion in 10-year notes at a 3.51% interest rate. [vii] The Treasury effectively refinanced those at a mid-May 2020 auction of new 10-year notes. The interest rate? A far-lower 0.65%. [viii]

Which brings us to another point: Treasury bonds carry fixed rates, so rising rates don’t immediately threaten affordability. As of 12/31/2019, the weighted average maturity of US debt was nearly 70 months—higher than the 60-month historical average over the past 40 years. [ix] Hence, rates would need to rise significantly from here—and stay there for years as Treasury refinanced maturing bonds—to hit costs materially. That doesn’t seem likely today. Demand is strong, putting downward pressure on yields. With sovereign-debt yields low globally—Japan and Europe have lower rates than America—US debt remains more attractive in comparison.

Moreover, interest rates tend to move with inflation, and the latter looks unlikely to surge in the near future. Even after the spread widened between long and short rates since February’s end, the US yield curve is still around its flattest over the past 10 years. That weighs on bank lending and, relatedly, money supply growth—a key inflation component. When investors anticipate higher inflation to come, they will demand a higher premium to compensate for their loss in purchasing power. That isn’t likely to be the case with inflation benign. US debt could be on its way to making new records, but that doesn’t mean new problems will come with it.

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1. Bronx Lebanon Diagnostic Care has the following cost structure:

Fixed Costs $800,000

Variable cost per procedure $35

Charge (revenue) per procedure $110

Assume that the Bronx Lebanon Diagnostic Care expects to perform 7,500 procedures in the coming year.

a. Construct the groups base case projected P & L statement.

Insert your response here.

b. What is the group’s contribution margin?

Insert your response here.

c. What is the breakeven point? (in number of procedures)

Insert your response here.

d. Let say they contract with one HMO for all 7,500 procedures and the plan proposes a 20 percent discount from charges. Answer questions a,b,c under these conditions. Insert your response here.

Stock: Terreno Realty Corporation (TRNO)

Rd=2.40% (cost of debt)
Re=4.41% (cost of equity)
WACC=3.94%

This is the full question, I only need part 3 two-stage FCFE:

Using the cost of equity, cost of debt, and WACC you computed in PHASE I, compute absolute valuation measures for the value of your stock. You must complete all four valuation measures. You may adjust your estimates of re, rd, and WACC if you find that a different estimate makes sense. However, you must use the same cost of equity for all four calculations (cost of equity is the same no matter which valuation model is used).
1. DDM: Compute the DDM estimated value using your estimate of r from PHASE I and your estimate of g. Also, produce a Sensitivity Analysis Table like the one in my lecture notes. Show the stock price for small changes in g and r. Also, use the current stock price and your estimate of r to compute the implied growth rate for you stock.
2. Two-stage DDM: Use your estimate of short-term and long-term growth in dividends to value the stock. Explain how you came up with the estimates of g. If your stock does not pay dividends, use one of the models from the textbook for computing DDM on non-dividend stocks.
3. Two-stage FCFE: Use your estimates of short-term and long-term growth in free cash flow to value the stock. Explain how you came up with the estimates of g. While it is possible to use different growth rates for FCFE and DDM, for most companies both dividends and free cash flow to equity grow at the same rate in the long run.
4. Two-stage FCFF. For 2-stage FCFF, use the WACC as your cost of capital and estimate the short- term and long-term values of g for the cash flows to the firm. Compute both the value of the entire firm as well as the value of equity using this model (subtract the value of debt from the value of the firm to get the value of equity). Note that your estimates of g for the FCFF calculation must be lower than g for FCFE and DDM (because of leverage).

Constructing and Assessing Income Statements Using Cost-to-Cost Method
Assume General Electric Company agreed in May 2016 to construct a nuclear generator for NSTAR, a utility company serving the Boston area. General Electric Company estimated that its construction costs would be $360 million. The contract price of $450 million is to be paid as follows: $150 million at the time of signing; $150 million on December 31, 2016; and $150 million at completion in May 2017. General Electric incurred the following costs in constructing the generator: $144 million in 2016 and $216 million in 2017.

a. Compute the amount of General Electric's revenue, expense, and income for both 2016 and 2017, and for both years combined, under the cost-to-cost revenue recognition method.
Enter dollar amounts in millions.

1. When the short-run marginal cost curve is upward-sloping,

The average total cost curve is upward-sloping

There are diseconomies of scale.

The average total cost curve is above the marginal cost curve.

Diminishing returns occurs with greater output.

2. Marginal revenue is the change in

Group of answer choices

Average revenue when output is changed.

Average revenue when price is changed.

Total revenue when output is changed.

Total revenue when price is changed.

3.The shutdown point occurs where price equals the minimum of

AFC.

MR.

AVC.

ATC.

4. Economic profit is the difference between

Accounting profit and explicit costs.

Accounting profits and external costs.

Total costs and total economic costs.

Total revenues and total economic costs.

5. If the equilibrium price in a perfectly competitive market for walnuts is $4.99 per pound, then an individual firm in this market can

Not sell additional walnuts unless the firm lowers its price.

Sell more only by increasing its advertising budget.

Sell an additional pound of walnuts at $4.99.

Not sell additional walnuts at any price because the market is at equilibrium.

6. Profit per unit is equal to

TR - ATC.

P - MR.

TR - TC.

P - ATC.