Question 3 How can you identify the difference between quantitative and qualitative question? Conduct an internet search citing your references of respected authorities on this subject. Refer to Week 3 slides and recordings for further information (Must provide 2 references, there should be at least one academic reference and one non-academic). (At least 200 words).

Use OEE but want to know whether OEE is a suitable approach to measure/benchmark/compare the performance of each of its plants in the UK?

Information about Energy Storage Market in UK. Show different revenue stream of energy storage market.(about 200 words)

How would the motor parts industry be affected with the withdrawal of the UK, in depth analysis over Britain separating from the European union?

Each month, the Sports Exports Company (a U.S. firm) receives an order for footballs from different British sporting goods distributors. The monthly payment for the footballs is denominated in British pounds, as requested by the British distributor. Jim Logan, owner of the Sports Exports Company, must convert the pounds received into dollars.

1. Explain how a higher level of inflation in UK affect Sports Exports Company (assume U.S, inflation remains constant.

2. How could a decreasing level of national income in UK affect Sports Exports Company?

1. Currently the spot exchange rate is $1.50/£ and the three month forward exchange rate is $1.52/£. The three month interest rate is 8.0% per annum in the US and 5.8% per annum in the UK. Assume that you can borrow as much as $1M. or £1M.

1. Is there a covered interest arbitrage opportunity for a US multinational? What is the payoff if they conducted CIA?
2. Is there a covered interest arbitrage opportunity for a UK multinational? What would be their payoff if they conducted CIA?
3. How will the covered interest rate parity be restored?
4. What should have been the “correct” forward exchange rate?

HW2: Interest Rate Parity with bid-ask spreads

Suppose:

 Spot rate St = $1.5080 - $1.5095 / £

 Six month Forward rate Ft,t+6 = $1.5280 – 1.5292/£

 Interest rate in US = 4.6% – 4.8%

 Interest rate in UK = 3.0% – 3.3%

With bid-ask rates and borrowing-lending rates, is arbitrage profit possible if you start with $1 million in part (a) and £ 1 million in part (b) ? Do it both ways :

(a) borrow $ 1 million in US and invest overseas and

(b) borrow £ 1 million in UK and invest in US.

Should I give the Page Quality (PQ) rate of LOW or LOWEST?

1. True/False - A page with a mismatch between the location of the page and the rate location; for example an English (UK) page for an English (US) rating task.

I think it's false because of this statement in the general guidelines. Do not consider the country or location of the page or website for PQ rating. For example, English (US) raters should use the same PQ standards when rating pages from other English language websites (UK) as they use when rating pages from the U.S websites. In other words, English (US) raters should not lower the PQ rating because the page location (UK) does not match the task location.

2. True/False A file type other than a webpage, for example: a PDF, a Microsoft Word document, or a PNG file.

3. True/False A page that gets a Didn't Load flag.

4. True/False Pages with an obvious problem with functionality or errors in displaying content.

Solve the heat equation (in one dimensional case) for c^2=9, the following boundary and initial conditions:

u(0,t)=u(2Pie,t)=0

u(x,0)=5sinx = 2sin5x

Find the solution to the heat equation on 0 < x < l,
with u(0, t) = 0, u_x(l, t) = 0, and u(x, 0) = phi(x).
This is sometimes called a "mixed" boundary condition.