1. Tris buffer

a. 100 mM Tris-HCl, pH 8.0

b. 100 mM Tris-HCl, pH 6.0

Make this buffer by dissolving an appropriate amount (which you must calculate using the formula weight) of solid Tris in APPROXIMATELY 80 mL of water. Use the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation to calculate how much 1 M HCl is needed to achieve the final pH?

Year 0 1 2 3 FTF(Mil) -100 50 100 70 Suppose? Alcatel-Lucent has an equity cost of capital of 10%?, market capitalization of $10.80 ?billion, and an enterprise value of $14.4 billion. Suppose? Alcatel-Lucent's debt cost of capital is 6.1% and its marginal tax rate is 35%.

a. What is? Alcatel-Lucent's WACC?

b. If? Alcatel-Lucent maintains a constant? debt-equity ratio, what is the value of a project with average risk and the expected free cash flows as shown? here,? c. If? Alcatel-Lucent maintains its? debt-equity ratio, what is the debt capacity of the project in part ?(b?)? . What is? Alcatel-Lucent's WACC? ?Alcatel-Lucent's WACC is ______%. ?(Round to two decimal? places.)

b. If? Alcatel-Lucent maintains a constant? debt-equity ratio, what is the value of a project with average risk and the expected free cash flows as shown? here, LOADING... ?? The NPV of the project is ?$________million.???(Round to two decimal? places.)

c. If? Alcatel-Lucent maintains its? debt-equity ratio, what is the debt capacity of the project in part ?(b?)? The debt capacity of the project in part ?(b?) is as? follows:???(Round to two decimal? places.) Year 0 1 2 3 Debt capacity ?$_______million ?$________million ?$_________million ?$_________million

Assignment #3

Introduction to C Programming – COP 3223

Objectives

1. To reinforce the use of If-Else statements
2. To learn how to use while loops

Introduction: Mission to Mars

Your friend has been playing a new Mars Colony simulator nonstop! They are always talking about how cool it would be if they could be a on the first real-life mission to Mars! To amuse your friend, you have decided to create a series of programs about the possible first colony on Mars.

Problem: Where Can We Get the Best Deal? (marssupplier.c)

Now that we know how much fuel we need and how much equipment we can take, we need to determine which supplier will give us the best deal on what we need to purchase. We will poll a number of suppliers to see what kind of pricing they can give us and select the supplier who has the best deal.

In this program, we want to ask the user for information about suppliers. We can assume that there will be at least one supplier, but we will not know ahead of time how many suppliers there might be. After each supplier’s information, ask the user if there is another supplier to consider.

For each supplier, ask the user for the deal that the supplier is willing to offer. Keep track of the best possible deal and which supplier (identified as a number: 1, 2, 3, etc.) is offering it. After all the suppliers have been considered, tell the user which supplier offered the best deal.

Input Specification

1. The user will use ‘Y’ to indicate there is at least one more supplier to consider.
2. The user will use ‘N’ to indicate that there are no more suppliers to consider.
3. Each suppliers’ price will be a positive real number.

Output Specification

For each supplier, prompt the user with:

What is the price for supplier #X?

To ask about additional suppliers, prompt the user with:

Is there another supplier to consider?

For the final print out, tell the user which supplier they should select, including the best price rounded to two decimal places:

Supplier #X had the best price at $Y.YY.

Output Samples

Below are some sample outputs of running the program. Note that these samples are NOT a comprehensive test. You should test your program with different data than is shown here based on the specifications given above. In the sample run below, for clarity and ease of reading, the user input is given in italics while the program output is in bold. (Note: When you actually run your program no bold or italics should appear at all. These are simply used in this description for clarity’s sake.)

Sample Run 1

What is the price for supplier #1?

500.49

Is there another supplier to consider?

N

Supplier #1 had the best price at $500.49.

Sample Run 2

What is the price for supplier #1?

250.39

Is there another supplier to consider?

Y

What is the price for supplier #2?

500.49

Is there another supplier to consider?

Y

What is the price for supplier #3?

178.72

Is there another supplier to consider?

Y

What is the price for supplier #4?

300.00

Is there another supplier to consider?

N

Supplier #3 had the best price at $178.72.

Objectives

1. To reinforce the use of If-Else statements
2. To learn how to use while loops

Introduction: Mission to Mars

Your friend has been playing a new Mars Colony simulator nonstop! They are always talking about how cool it would be if they could be a on the first real-life mission to Mars! To amuse your friend, you have decided to create a series of programs about the possible first colony on Mars.

Problem: Where Can We Get the Best Deal? (marssupplier.c)

Now that we know how much fuel we need and how much equipment we can take, we need to determine which supplier will give us the best deal on what we need to purchase. We will poll a number of suppliers to see what kind of pricing they can give us and select the supplier who has the best deal.

In this program, we want to ask the user for information about suppliers. We can assume that there will be at least one supplier, but we will not know ahead of time how many suppliers there might be. After each supplier’s information, ask the user if there is another supplier to consider.

For each supplier, ask the user for the deal that the supplier is willing to offer. Keep track of the best possible deal and which supplier (identified as a number: 1, 2, 3, etc.) is offering it. After all the suppliers have been considered, tell the user which supplier offered the best deal.

Input Specification

1. The user will use ‘Y’ to indicate there is at least one more supplier to consider.
2. The user will use ‘N’ to indicate that there are no more suppliers to consider.
3. Each suppliers’ price will be a positive real number.

Output Specification

For each supplier, prompt the user with:

What is the price for supplier #X?

To ask about additional suppliers, prompt the user with:

Is there another supplier to consider?

For the final print out, tell the user which supplier they should select, including the best price rounded to two decimal places:

Supplier #X had the best price at $Y.YY.

Output Samples

Below are some sample outputs of running the program. Note that these samples are NOT a comprehensive test. You should test your program with different data than is shown here based on the specifications given above. In the sample run below, for clarity and ease of reading, the user input is given in italics while the program output is in bold. (Note: When you actually run your program no bold or italics should appear at all. These are simply used in this description for clarity’s sake.)

Sample Run 1

What is the price for supplier #1?

500.49

Is there another supplier to consider?

N

Supplier #1 had the best price at $500.49.

Sample Run 2

What is the price for supplier #1?

250.39

Is there another supplier to consider?

Y

What is the price for supplier #2?

500.49

Is there another supplier to consider?

Y

What is the price for supplier #3?

178.72

Is there another supplier to consider?

Y

What is the price for supplier #4?

300.00

Is there another supplier to consider?

N

Supplier #3 had the best price at $178.72.

On October 7, Monty Company sold merchandise to a customer for $1,200 with credit terms of 2/10, n/30. The cost of the merchandise is $800. On October 10, Monty granted the customer a $100 allowance on the merchandise the customer purchased on October 7. In the October 10 journal entry, Monty will:

Debit Merchandise Inventory $100; credit Cost of Goods Sold $100

Debit Merchandise Inventory $100; credit Sales Returns and Allowances $100

Debit Sales Returns and Allowance $100; credit Accounts Receivable $100

Debit Sales Discounts $100; credit Accounts Receivable $100

O’Brien Company manufactures and sells one product. The following information pertains to each of the company’s first three years of operations:

During its first year of operations, O’Brien produced 93,000 units and sold 77,000 units. During its second year of operations, it produced 78,000 units and sold 89,000 units. In its third year, O’Brien produced 84,000 units and sold 79,000 units. The selling price of the company’s product is $78 per unit.

4. Assume the company uses absorption costing and a LIFO inventory flow assumption (LIFO means last-in first-out. In other words, it assumes that the newest units in inventory are sold first):

a. Compute the unit product cost for Year 1, Year 2, and Year 3. (Round your intermediate calculations and final answers to 2 decimal places.)

b. Prepare an income statement for Year 1, Year 2, and Year 3. (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.)

Please refer 2 items as below from Microsoft’s Letter to Shareholders as below. And refer them to Porter’s five forces.

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Consider total cost and total revenue, given in the following table:

In the final column, enter profit for each quantity. (Note: If the firm suffers a loss, enter a negative number in the appropriate cell.)

In order to maximize profit, how many units should the firm produce? Check all that apply.

4

5

6

7

In the previous table, enter marginal revenue and marginal cost for each quantity.

On the following graph, use the green points (triangle symbol) to graph the marginal-revenue curve, then use the orange points (square symbol) to plot the marginal-cost curve. (Note: Be sure to plot from left to right and to plot between integers. For example, if the marginal cost of increasing production from 1 unit to 2 units is $5, then you would plot a point at (1.5, 5).)

Marginal RevenueMarginal Cost01234567109876543210Revenue and CostsQuantity

The marginal-revenue curve and the marginal-cost curve cross at a quantity   .

This firm   in a competitive industry, because marginal revenue is   as quantity increases.

True or False: The industry is in a long-run equilibrium.

True

False

3.

In an international ballroom dancing competition, competitors are scored by a panel of judges on a scale from 0 to 100. The final score for each couple is computed as the average of the scores from all the judges. However, if the number of judges is equal to or greater than 6, and the highest score is given by only one judge, that score is excluded from computing the average. The same applies to the lowest score.

1. Write a method countOccurrences that returns the number of occurrences of a given target value in a given array. Complete the method countOccurrences below.

   Question 3(a) /** Returns the number of times target occurs among the values * in the given array * @param scores an array of values * @param target the target value * @return the number of times target appears among the * values in scores */ public static int countOccurrences(int[] scores, int target)

2. Write a method findMaxAndMin that takes an array scores as a parameter and returns an array of length two, where the first element is the maximum value in scores and the second element is the minimum value in scores. Complete the method findMaxAndMin below.

   Question 3(b) /** Returns an array of two elements in which * the first element is the maximum value in scores and * the second element is the minimum value in scores * Precondition: scores.length > 0; 0 <= scores[k] <= 100 */ public static int[] findMaxAndMin(int[] scores)

3. Write a method averageScore that takes an array scores as a parameter and computes and returns the average score. However, if the size of the array scores is 6 or greater, and the maximum value occurs only once in the array, that value is excluded from computing the average. The same is done for the minimum value.

   In writing this method, assume that the methods countOccurrences from Part (a) and findMaxAndMin from Part (b) work as specified, regardless of what you wrote there. You may not receive full credit if instead of calling these methods you write equivalent code here. Complete the method averageScore below.

   Question 3(c) /** Returns the average of the values in scores. However, * if the size of the array scores is not less than 6 and * the largest value occurs only once in scores, that value * is excluded from computing the average; the same for * the smallest value. * Precondition: scores.length >= 3; 0 <= scores[k] <= 100 */ public static double averageScore(int[] scores)