Margot is walking in a straight line from a point 40 feet due east of a statue in a park toward a point 34 feet due north of the statue. She walks at a constant speed of 4 feet per second.
(a) Write parametric equations for Margot's position t seconds after she starts walking. (Round your coefficients to four decimal places as needed.)
(b) Write an expression for the distance from Margot's position to the statue at time t. (Round your coefficients to four decimal places as needed.)
(c) Find the times when Margot is 36 feet from the statue. (Round your answers to two decimal places)
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Question Preparing a bank reconciliation
The Cash account of Guard Dog Security Systems reported a balance of $2,540 at December 31, 2018. There were outstanding checks totaling $400 and a December 31 deposit in transit of $100. The bank statement, which came from Park Cities Bank, listed the December 31 balance of $3,340. Included in the bank balance was a collection of $510 on account from Brendan Ballou, a Guard Dog customer who pays the bank directly. The bank statement also shows a $30 service charge and $20 of interest revenue that Guard Dog earned on its bank balance. Prepare Guard Dog’s bank reconciliation for December 31.
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Question 1: Why are costs so important for a perfectly competitive firm?
Question 2: Suppose you own and manage a hotel that has 100 rooms. Your total costs (including all staff wages, utilities, insurance, lease payments, etc.) are $10,000/night, such that your average total costs per room are $100 per night. You work with an online bidding Web site (like Priceline) and receive a bid of $70 for a single night in the following week. You currently have several vacant rooms available on this night. Should you accept this bid? Briefly explain on what factors this decision would depend.
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The English Premier League has 20 teams, throughout the season,
each team plays each of the other teams once at home and once away.
(e.g. Everton plays Liverpool at Anfield, which is Liverpool’s home
field, and Everton plays Liverpool at Goodison Park, which is
Everton’s home field.) Teams are awarded 3 points for a win, 1
point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss
(a) How many combinations of wins, losses, and draws are possible for a team throughout the season, regardless of the order?
(b) How many ways can a team win 6 out of 10 games? Here, order matters, and you are only considering those 10 games.
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examining Porter's Five Forces as a tool for looking at the pressures on profits. Specifically, you will be looking at defining Porter's Five Forces and applying this tool to the market structures and pressures on profits of a chosen group of firms •Chose one of the following groups and use Porter's Five Forces to analyze the pressures on profits for your chosen group's firms. ◦Group 1: the accommodations industry (e.g., Hilton, Marriott Bonvoy, InterContintental Hotel Group). ◦Group 2: the wireless telecommunications industry (e.g., Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile). •If you want to dig deeper into how one of the firms views the challenges it faces, you might want to look at the firm's investor page.
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Suppose that you as a researcher wanted to examine the impact of police officer rank on perceptions of friendliness by citizens in College Park, MD. Rank is measured as patrol officer, sergeant or captain, and citizen perception is captured by a scale ranging from -50 to 50 and measured in a survey given to 1,000 randomly selected people after an interaction with a police officer. 500 people talked to a patrol officer, 300 talked to a sergeant and 200 people talked to a captain.
3. What is the a) unit of observation and b) reasonable population for this sample?
4. Identify the a) independent and b) dependent variables.
5. For each variable, name what kind of variable it is (nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio).
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b. Compute the net bond liability at December 31, 2018.
c. On January 1, 2019 the bonds were repurchased for 101. Record the journal entry for the repurchase of the bonds. This transaction is very similar to the sale of a fixed asset. 101 is the same as 101% of the face value of the bond.
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A-One Landscapers, Inc., owes Friendly Finance Company $5,000. A-One enters into a contract with Suburban Office Park under which A-One promises to maintain the landscaping on Suburban’s property and Suburban promises to pay Friendly Finance the amount that will be due A-One until A-One’s debt to Friendly Finance is paid. A-One performs as promised, but Suburban does not pay Friendly Finance.
1. What is the basis for a claim by Friendly Finance
against Suburban?
2. Will Friendly Finance be successful if it sues
Suburban based on your answer to 1., above?
3. Explain why or why not Friendly Finance will succeed
in such a suit. In your answer state the general legal principle
and then apply it to these facts.
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CHAPTER 8 - CASE SYNOPSIS—Sturdza v. United Arab EmiratesThe United Arab Emirates (UAE) held a competition for the design of an embassy inWashington, D.C. Elena Sturdza—an architect not licensed in the District of Columbia—won.Sturdza and the UAE exchanged proposals, but the UAE stopped communicating with her. Abouttwo years later, Sturdza learned that the UAE had contracted with a District of Columbia architectnamed Angelos Demetriou to use his design. Sturdza filed a suit in a federal district court against theUAE, alleging breach of contract. The court issued a summary judgment in the UAE’s favor. Sturdzaappealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. This court asked theDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals “precisely how D.C. law applies” in this situation.The District of Columbia Court of Appeals’ answer: an architect cannot recover on a contract toperform architectural services in the District of Columbia if he or she lacks a District of Columbialicense. For the safety of those who work in and visit buildings in the District of Columbia, and thesafety of their neighbors, the architects who design them and oversee their construction should bequalified and licensed. The statute contains no exception.
The architectural services at the center of this case were to be performed for a foreign embassy.Should the court have made an exception for such a circumstance? Why or why not?
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Consider the following independent situations, all of which apply to audits of entities for the year ended 31 December 2019:
(i) In July 2019, Alpha Ltd started using a new general ledger software package. The Financial Controller is impressed with the new system, because management accounts are easily produced and allow detailed comparisons with budgets and prior-period figures across product lines and geographical areas. The conversion to the new system went smoothly. As it is a popular computer package, it required only minor modifications.
(ii) As part of a computer systems conversion in Beta Ltd, the position of Systems Administrator was created. This position is responsible for all systems maintenance, including data backups and modifications. These tasks were previously the responsibility of the Accountant.
(iii) Gamma Ltd is a large supermarket chain with outlets in all major cities in the country. In August 2019 Gamma Ltd contracted out its payroll data processing in each city to an independent computer service provider.
(iv) Delta Ltd is a long established firm which has been operating a hotel for over 10 years. During this time, it has adopted a conservative business strategy that has seen it produce adequate, though slightly unimpressive, results. A new CEO was appointed to run the firm from September 2019. He has already released his plans for renovating the hotel, despite not officially serving as CEO yet. You have also heard him discuss the implementation of a new marketing strategy to improve occupancy rates.
Required:
For each situation (i) to (iv) above.
(a) State whether Inherent Risk, Control Risk or Detection Risk have increased or decreased.
(b) Provide an explanation for your answer in (a)
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