Smarty McGuy intends to charge the parallel plate capacitor inside his intergalactic Ford Pinto (built by Doc Dre) with a lightning strike of 26x10³ amps. Doc Dre's capacitor specifications are listed below:

The distance between the capacitor plates is 5 microns

The surface area of the capacitor plates is 3,844 cm²

There is a dielectric between the capacitor plates

What is the minimum dielectric constant of the material between the plates needed to store all the charge from the lightning assuming that the lightning strike lasts for 6x10^-6 seconds and provides 1.21 Gigawatts of power? Assume the dielectric doesn't reach its breakdown voltage.

1. The human immune system has a lot of back-up plans built into its design. Many cells and other immune components have similar roles. Provide an example of two components that have similar or identical roles in the immune system.

2. If you had to choose, do you feel it would be more detrimental to a person's health to have no T cells or no B cells? Which do you think would impact a person’s overall health more profoundly? Why?

3. Pathogens have many “tricks” to avoid immune detection and “buy time” to establish an infection. If you were a pathogen, which ONE of the following components of the immune system do you believe would be the most helpful to avoid or disable? Provide the reason why you selected it and any support for your choice.

a) Phagocytic cells

b) Inflammation

c) Complement

d) Cytokines

1. Using the R built-in data set called Chick Weight, we want to compare the mean weight across the different types of Diet. IMPORTANT: We only want to compare chicks at the final value of Time, 21. In this problem, use ?? = 0.05.
   1. Make a boxplot to compare weight across the different types of Diet. Based on the boxplot, describe any differences (or lack of differences) you see.
   2. Run an ANOVA to compare weight across the different types of Diet. Is there a significant difference in means?
   3. Regardless of your answer to part b, using Tukey’s HSD approach, which pair or pairs of Diet have significantly different means?
   4. Check the assumptions of the ANOVA: Do the variances look similar across groups? And do the residuals look like they could have come from a Normal Distribution?

Answers should be in the form of R code on how to accomplish each part and include the correct statistical explanation for those that require it in the question. Please be as thorough as possible. Thank you so much!!!

Built-Tight is preparing its master budget for the quarter ended September 30, 2017. Budgeted sales and cash payments for product costs for the quarter follow:

Sales are 25% cash and 75% on credit. All credit sales are collected in the month following the sale. The June 30 balance sheet includes balances of $15,000 in cash; $44,900 in accounts receivable; $4,400 in accounts payable; and a $4,900 balance in loans payable. A minimum cash balance of $15,000 is required. Loans are obtained at the end of any month when a cash shortage occurs. Interest is 1% per month based on the beginning-of-the-month loan balance and is paid at each month-end. If an excess balance of cash exists, loans are repaid at the end of the month. Operating expenses are paid in the month incurred and consist of sales commissions (10% of sales), office salaries ($3,900 per month), and rent ($6,400 per month).

(2) Prepare a cash budget for each of the months of July, August, and September. (Negative balances and Loan repayment amounts (if any) should be indicated with minus sign. Enter your final answers in whole dollars.)

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Built-Tight is preparing its master budget for the quarter ended September 30, 2017. Budgeted sales and cash payments for product costs for the quarter follow:

Sales are 20% cash and 80% on credit. All credit sales are collected in the month following the sale. The June 30 balance sheet includes balances of $15,000 in cash; $44,400 in accounts receivable; $3,900 in accounts payable; and a $4,400 balance in loans payable. A minimum cash balance of $15,000 is required. Loans are obtained at the end of any month when a cash shortage occurs. Interest is 1% per month based on the beginning-of-the-month loan balance and is paid at each month-end. If an excess balance of cash exists, loans are repaid at the end of the month. Operating expenses are paid in the month incurred and consist of sales commissions (10% of sales), office salaries ($3,400 per month), and rent ($5,900 per month).

(2) Prepare a cash budget for each of the months of July, August, and September. (Negative balances and Loan repayment amounts (if any) should be indicated with minus sign. Enter your final answers in whole dollars.)

In 500 or more words, address the following:

Describe how Whole Foods built its competitive advantage.

What IT assets and capabilities does Whole Foods utilize?

Assess Whole Foods' competitive environment by describing the following five competitive forces:

1. The potential threat of new entrants/competitors
2. The bargaining power of buyers
3. The bargaining power of suppliers
4. The threat of substitute products/services
5. Industry competitors

In 500 or more words, address the following:

Describe how Whole Foods built its competitive advantage.

What IT assets and capabilities does Whole Foods utilize?

Assess Whole Foods' competitive environment by describing the following five competitive forces:

1. The potential threat of new entrants/competitors
2. The bargaining power of buyers
3. The bargaining power of suppliers
4. The threat of substitute products/services
5. Industry competitors

MegaCorp's corporate headquarters, built in 1970, has asbestos in its insulation. The company's financial statements reflect a $5 million asset retirement obligation (ARO) for the eventual remediation of the asbestos. This ARO was initially estimated and recorded in 2005 when the company adopted FIN 45, Accounting for conditional Asset Retirement obligations. (note: amounts recorded for ARO are generally estimated because it is not always possible to know how much remediating asbestos - or other like issues - will ultimately cost) MegaCorp is a public company with a calendar year-end.

While performing routing maintenance work on the facility, additional sampling identified that presence of asbestos in more places than the company had documented during its initial estimate. The company now believes that total cost to remediate the asbestos will be $9 million. The initial estimate ($5 million) was based on sampling around the plant for areas containing asbestos. The newly discovered areas wutg asbestis were in a part of the facility that was not sampled.

Required: Assume that you are in the controller's group of MegaCorp and have been asked to prepare an accounting issues memorandum documenting your consideration of the following issues. this should be complete memorandum with all sections and appropriate headings, etc.

1. the company's controller is questioning whether this liability for asbestos disposal is even necessary at all. He argues that asbestos must only be remediated if its is disturberd (such as through renovations), and points out that the company does not have any immediate plans to renovate the building. Respond to his question using authoritative guidance. is a liability even necessary if the company plans for disposal or renovation of this builidng are uncertan?

Determine whether the additional liability for the newly discovered asbestos is considered a change in accounting estimate or an error. Note that this is not a change in accounting principle. support your answer using authoritative guidance.

Describe how the company should record this $4 million change (prospectively, or through a retrospective adjustment). What accounts should be debited/credited? you can disregard the use of present value for this example.

Consider a firm that has just built a plant, which cost $1,000. Each worker costs $5.00 per hour. Based on this information, fill in the table below.