Suppose that the consensus forecast of security analysts of NoWork Inc. is that earnings next year will be E1= $5.00 per share. The company tends to plow back 60% of its earnings and pay the rest as dividends. The CFO estimates that the company’s growth rate will be 8% from now on.

(a) If your estimate of the company’s required rate of return is 12%, what is the equilibrium price of the stock?

(b) Suppose there is uncertainty about the growth rate. With 50% probability the growth rate will be 6%, with 50% probability the growth rate will be 10%. What are the respective market values under the two growth rates? What must be the price of the stock, given that both growth rates have equal probability?

(c) Under the probabilities in (b) the expected growth rate of the firm is 8%. Howcome the valuation in part (b) is different from the valuation in part (a)?

Better Blooms is a florist shop which takes orders by internet and phone, prepares the desired floral arrangements, and delivers within a 25-mile radius of the shop. Since the profit margin on the business is small for each arrangement and the competition from other florists in the area is high, the owner is concerned about setting the appropriate costs for each delivery to be profitable while still being competitive. To investigate, the owner has gathered information on a random sample of 50 recent orders and has asked you to analyze the data using statistical methods and to report to her your findings. Factors thought to be related to the cost of delivering a floral arrangement are thought to be: (1) Preparation Time – the time in minutes between when the customer has placed an order and when it is ready for delivery; more expensive arrangements take longer to prepare, (2) Delivery Time – the travel time in minutes from the shop to the recipient of the arrangement, and (3) Mileage – the distance in miles from the shop to the customer (mileage and delivery time are sometimes inversely proportional when the delivery truck can use an interstate instead of traveling through heavy downtown traffic, for instance). Develop a multiple linear regression equation that describes the relationship between the cost of delivery and the other variables. Do these three variables explain a reasonable amount of the variation in the dependent variable? Estimate the delivery cost for an arrangement that takes 20 minutes for preparation, takes 30 minutes to deliver, and must cover a distance of 12 miles. Test to determine that at least one regression coefficient differs from zero. Also test to see whether any of the variables can be dropped, rerun the regression equation until only significant variables are included. Write management report interpreting the final regression equation, show your analysis in charts, tables, graphs so it is easy for the owner to see the analysis and conclusions, and back up your charts with detailed analysis using formulas and explanations of your statistical analysis steps. The owner wants to know your report is credible, but is not a statistician, so make your explanations clear.

Cost   Prep   Delivery   Distance
22.60   20   51   20
23.37   11   33   12
31.49   16   47   19
19.31   22   18   8
28.35   18   88   17
22.63   19   20   11
22.63   29   39   11
11.53   10   23   10
21.16   13   20   8
11.53   20   32   10
28.17   15   35   16
20.42   18   23   9
21.53   19   21   10
27.55   17   37   16
23.37   19   25   12
17.10   15   15   6
27.06   13   34   15
15.99   18   13   4
17.96   12   12   4
25.22   16   41   14
24.29   13   28   13
22.76   24   26   10
28.17   19   54   16
19.68   17   18   8
25.15   16   50   13
20.36   19   19   7
21.16   13   19   8
15.22   10   45   14
18.76   12   12   5
18.76   18   16   5
24.29   17   35   13
19.56   12   12   6
22.63   18   30   11
21.16   15   13   8
21.16   11   20   8
19.68   15   19   8
18.76   17   14   7
17.96   15   11   4
23.37   10   25   12
25.22   16   32   14
27.06   18   44   16
21.96   19   28   9
22.63   18   31   11
19.68   17   19   8
22.76   18   28   10
21.96   13   18   9
26.95   10   32   14
26.14   18   44   15
24.29   20   34   13
24.35   16   33   12

Patient Profile: Candace is a 23-year-old, G1P1, MWF, who delivered a 7 pound 8 ounce baby boy three weeks ago at the local birth center. She is very happy about the birth and is adjusting well to motherhood. She breastfed her baby a few minutes after the birth and has continued to exclusively breastfeed him. She intends to breastfeed for at least a year probably starting him on solid foods around six months. Prior to the pregnancy, Candace was a busy office executive in a local shipping firm. She is on a six-week leave of absence. She plans to pump her breast milk for the baby when she returns to work. She is hoping that her mother-in-law who will be caring for the baby, will be able to bring the baby to her workplace at least once a day at noon to breastfeed and then give the baby the breast milk she has left from a bottle for the other feedings. Her mother-in-law will be arriving from out of state in two weeks. Candace is a very “in control person.” She plans everything in her life, and up to this point the world has respected her wishes.

Case Study: Candace called the birth center this morning crying. Her breast on the left side is so sore she cannot stand to have the baby nurse on that side, and to make matters worse, that is the only side the baby will take. For the last 12 hours the baby seems to want to nurse all the time or just cries and sucks his fist. She feels sick, cannot get anything done at home and at 2 p.m. is still in her pajamas with last night’s dinner and this morning’s breakfast dishes still in the sink. She and her husband had an argument this morning and he left for work angry and overtired after getting no sleep all night from the baby crying. He just wants her to stop being so stubborn, since she obviously doesn’t have enough milk, and give the baby some formula. Her car has broken down and she has no other source of transportation. The nurse working at the birth center offers to make a home visit.

5. Why does it appear to Candace’s husband that Candace has lost her milk?

6. On arrival the nruse find that Candac’s left breast mipple is cracked and bleeding slightly. The nurse also notes that Candace has a fever of 101.2, seems lethargic, and has an area the size of a quarter on the underside of her right breast that is firm, red, and warm. Candace tells the nruse that she feels like she has the flu. What is Candace’s problem, what probably caused it and what is the nurs’es next action?

7. The CNM at the birth center calls in a prescription for ampicillin 500 mg po qid for 10 days. Candace starts crying and asks if this means she can no longer breastfeed. What is the nruse’s best response?

8. Outline a teaching plan to reduce the possibility of Candace having another mastitis infection.

9. Why did the baby only want to nurse on the left side?

10. How can the nurse help Candace get him to also nurse on the right side?

11. Where can the nurse refer Candace for support with her breastfeeding?

12. Candace plans to return to work in two weeks. Make a list of decisions and possible problems that she will have to work through during these next two weeks, and after she returns to work, to prepare her and the baby for this transition. Provide alternative suggestions for her to consider.

13. Identify three priority concepts for Candace and three goals for each concept.

Match each passage with the title of the literary work from which it came.

This exercise has two parts. Please respond to both. The calculation formulas and procedures for both parts are included in the mini-lecture titled “Rates and Percentages” Part One The Mayors of two small towns that adjoin a large community have engaged in an argument on which of their cities is safer, with respect to its crime rate. City A has a residential population of 123,000 people and reported 185 violent crimes. City B has a residential population of 84,000 people and reported 135 violent crimes. Answer the following questions. 1. What is the reported crime rate per 100,000 residents in both cities? 2. Based on your responses to the previous question, which city has the lowest crime rate? Part Two Last year. 135 vehicles were reported stolen in the City of Bigton. This year, 185 vehicles were reported stolen in the City of Bigton. What is the percent change in reported stolen vehicles from last year to this year in the City of Bigton?

Write bash shell scripts for the following problems and submit your answers a single.

A ) Write a linux bash shell script that reads your first and lastname as arguments and print them as shown below. In my example, I name the script as printname.sh. In the example, the two arguments follow the shell scriptname. Submit the script and output print screen.

# sh ./printname.sh Abdullah Konak 
My first name is Abdullah
My surname is Konak

B ) Write a linux bash script that will return the largest of the two numbers that are entered as the argument of the script as shown in the example given below. Return your script and a printscreen from your computer.

# sh ./larger.sh 7 5 
7 is larger of 5 and 7.

C) Extend the script in part B to any number of numbers entered as arguments as the example given below.

# sh ./largest.sh 7 5 3 8 9 10
10 is the largest of numbers entered. 

Two masses are on a horizontal, frictionless surface. The plane of the surface is the x-y plane. Mass m₁ = 1.0kg is at rest while mass m₂ = 2.0kg is moving in the positive x-direction at 15m/s. The two masses then undergo a collision and mass m₂ is moving with a speed of 9.0m/s at an angle of 35 degrees after the collision.

1) What is the speed of the center of mass of the two masses before the collision?

2) What is the kinetic energy of the center of mass of the two masses before the collision?

3) What is the total kinetic energy of the two masses before the collision?

4) What is the kinetic energy of mass m₁ after the collision?

5) What is the kinetic energy of mass m₂ after the collision?

6) What is the total kinetic energy of the two masses after the collision?

7) What is the speed of the center of mass of the two masses after the collision?

8) What is the kinetic energy of the center of mass of the two masses after the collision?

9) Was the collision elastic, inelastic, or is there not enough information?

1. A hospital’s human resources department is comparing work performance with work shift times (Shifts A, B, C).
   1. What are the two qualitative variables? Classify each of them as nominal or ordinal.

2. Write the hypotheses for a chi-square test of homogeneity.

3. The data from the study is shown below. Fill in the empty table with the row percentages for each shift. Round to the nearest tenth of a percent.

4. Does there seem to be a difference in the distribution of work performance among the shifts? Why or why not?

5. The p-value from a chi-square test of homogeneity on the performance data is 0.304. Does the conclusion, based on the p-value, match your intuition in part b)? Give a thorough explanation.