Rebecca and Walter Bunge have been married for 5 years. They live at 883 Scrub Brush Street, Apt. 52B, Las Vegas, NV 89125. Rebecca is a homemaker and Walt is a high school teacher. Rebecca's Social Security number is 222-43-7690 and Walt's is 700-01-0002. Walt's earnings from teaching are:

The Bunges incurred the following expenses during their move from Maine to Nevada in January of 2016:

The school district reimbursed Walter $500 for moving expenses. These are reflected on his W-2. Walter’s previous job, as a high school teacher in Maine, was only 5 miles from his home. Rebecca was unemployed prior to the move.

The Bunges own a ski condo located at 123 Buncombe Lane, Brian Head, UT 84719. The condo was rented for 185 days during 2016 and used by the Bunges for 15 days. Pertinent information about the condo rental is as follows:

The above amounts do not reflect any allocation between rental and personal use of the condo. The Bunges are active managers of the condo.

Click here to access the tax table to use for this problem.

Required:

Complete the Bunge's federal tax return for 2016. Use Form 1040, Schedule E, Form 3903, and Form 8582 to complete their tax return.

If an amount box does not require an entry or the answer is zero, enter "0". Do not round any percentages. If required, round your answers to the nearest dollar. If required, enter a "loss" as a negative number on the tax form. Do not enter deductions as negative numbers.

Note: Special instructions for Form 8582 - If required, use the minus sign to enter a "loss" as a negative number on the lines 1d, 4 and 16. However, per the instructions on the tax return, enter all numbers in Part II as positive amounts.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
In this assignment, you are provided with working code that does the following:
1. You input a sentence (containing no more than 50 characters).
2. The program will read the sentence and put it into an array of characters.
3. Then, it creates one thread for each character in the sentence.
4. The goal of the program is to capitalize on each letter that has an odd index.
The given program actually does this but lacks the synchronization of the threads, so
the output is not correct. You will need to provide the synchronization using mutex
locks. Specifically, you are to (1) declare the mutex lock, (2) initialize the mutex lock, (3)
lock and unlock the mutex lock at an appropriate location that results in the code
working as expected, and (4) destroy the mutex lock. Be sure to place the mutex locks
so that your program works correctly every time. Do not remove code or functions – you
are to add the synchronization pieces only.
When compiling using the GNU C compiler, be sure to include the –lpthread flag
option.
SAMPLE OUTPUT (user input shown in bold green):
$ ./a.out
Please enter a phrase (less than 50 characters): when all else
fails, read the instructions
The original sentence is: when all else fails, read the instructions
The new sentence is [0]: w
The new sentence is [0]: w
The new sentence is [0]: w
The new sentence is [0]: w
The new sentence is [0]: w
The new sentence is [0]: w
The new sentence is [3]: N
The new sentence is [0]: w
The new sentence is [0]: w
The new sentence is [0]: w
The new sentence is [0]: w
The new sentence is [0]: w
The new sentence is [9]: E
The new sentence is [12]: e
The new sentence is [14]: f
The new sentence is [15]: A
The new sentence is [16]: i
2
The new sentence is [17]: L
The new sentence is [17]: L
The new sentence is [19]: ,
The new sentence is [20]:
The new sentence is [21]: R
The new sentence is [22]: e
The new sentence is [23]: A
The new sentence is [23]: A
The new sentence is [25]:
The new sentence is [26]: t
The new sentence is [27]: H
The new sentence is [27]: H
The new sentence is [27]: H
The new sentence is [29]:
The new sentence is [31]: N
The new sentence is [30]: i
The new sentence is [31]: N
The new sentence is [32]: s
The new sentence is [35]: U
The new sentence is [34]: r
The new sentence is [35]: U
The new sentence is [36]: c
The new sentence is [37]: T
The new sentence is [39]: O
The new sentence is [41]: S
The new sentence is [41]: S
The problem is that the output should look something like:
$ ./a.out
Please enter a phrase (less than 50 characters): when all else
fails, read the instructions
The original sentence is: when all else fails, read the instructions
The new sentence is [0]: w
The new sentence is [1]: H
The new sentence is [2]: e
The new sentence is [3]: N
The new sentence is [4]:
The new sentence is [5]: A
The new sentence is [6]: l
The new sentence is [7]: L
The new sentence is [8]:
The new sentence is [9]: E
The new sentence is [10]: l
The new sentence is [11]: S
The new sentence is [12]: e
The new sentence is [13]:
The new sentence is [14]: f
The new sentence is [15]: A
The new sentence is [16]: i
The new sentence is [17]: L
3
The new sentence is [18]: s
The new sentence is [19]: ,
The new sentence is [20]:
The new sentence is [21]: R
The new sentence is [22]: e
The new sentence is [23]: A
The new sentence is [24]: d
The new sentence is [25]:
The new sentence is [26]: t
The new sentence is [27]: H
The new sentence is [28]: e
The new sentence is [29]:
The new sentence is [30]: i
The new sentence is [31]: N
The new sentence is [32]: s
The new sentence is [33]: T
The new sentence is [34]: r
The new sentence is [35]: U
The new sentence is [36]: c
The new sentence is [37]: T
The new sentence is [38]: i
The new sentence is [39]: O
The new sentence is [40]: n
The new sentence is [41]: S
The new sentence is [42]:
REQUIREMENTS:
• No comments are required for this recitation assignment, except for your name at
the top of each program.
• Your program should be named “rec07.c”, without the quotes.
• Your program will be graded based largely on whether it works correctly on the
CSE machines (e.g., cse01, cse02, …, cse06), so you should make sure that
your program compiles and runs on a CSE machine.
• Although this assignment is to be submitted individually (i.e., each student will
submit his/her own source code), you may receive assistance from your TA and
even other classmates. Please remember that you are ultimately responsible for
learning and comprehending this material as the recitation assignments are given
in preparation for the minor assignments, which must be completed individually.
• Please do not share this assignment or your work with other students to allow
them the opportunity to benefit from this exercise and learn this material.
SUBMISSION:
• You will electronically submit your program to the Recitation 7 dropbox in
Canvas by the due date and time. No late recitation assignments will be
accepted.

CODE

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <pthread.h>

#define SIZE 50

char sentence[2000];
int ind = 0;

char convertUppercase(char lower)
{
//Converts lowercase un uppercase
if ((lower > 96) && (lower < 123))
{
return (lower - 32);
}
else
{
return lower;
}
}

void printChar()
{
//prints the converted sentence
printf("The new sentence is [%d]: \t%c\n", ind, sentence[ind]);
ind++;
}

void *convertMessage(void *ptr)
{
// Function that each threads initiates its execution
if (ind % 2)
{
sentence[ind] = convertUppercase(sentence[ind]);
}
  
printChar();

return 0;
}

int main()
{
int i;
char buffer[SIZE];
char *p;
pthread_t ts[SIZE]; // define up to 50 threads

printf("Please enter a phrase (less than 50 characters): ");

if (fgets(buffer, sizeof(buffer), stdin) != NULL)
{
if ((p = strchr(buffer, '\n')) != NULL)
{
*p = '\0';
}
}

strcpy(sentence, buffer); // copy string to char array
  
printf("The original sentence is: \t %s\n", sentence);

// create one thread for each character on the input word
for (i = 0; i < strlen(buffer) + 1; ++i)
{
pthread_create(&ts[i], NULL, convertMessage, NULL);
}
  
// we wait until all threads finish execution
for (i = 0; i < strlen(buffer); i++)
{
pthread_join(ts[i], NULL);
}
  
printf("\n");
  
return 0;
}

Patient Portal

Kaiser Permanente is an integrated health delivery system that serves more than eight million members in nine states and the District of Columbia. In the late 1990s, Kaiser Permanente introduced an Internet patient portal, Kaiser Permanente Online (also known as KP Online). Members can use KP Online to request appointments, request prescription refills, obtain health care service information, seek clinical advice, and participate in patient forums.

Information Systems Challenge

In August, there was a serious breach in the security of the KP Online pharmacy refill application. Programmers wrote a flawed script that actually concatenated over eight hundred individual e-mail messages containing individually identifiable patient information, instead of separating them as intended. As a result, nineteen members received e-mail messages with private information about multiple other members. Kaiser became aware of the problem when two members notified the organization that they had received the concatenated e-mail messages. Kaiser leadership considered this incident a significant breach of confidentiality and security. The organization immediately took steps to investigate and to offer apologies to those affected.

On the same day the first member notified Kaiser about receiving the problem e-mail, a crisis team was formed. The crisis team began a root cause analysis and a mitigation assessment process. Three days later Kaiser began notifying its members and issued a press release.

The investigation of the cause of the breach uncovered issues at the technical, individual, group, and organizational levels. At the technical level, Kaiser was using new web-based tools, applications, and processes. The pharmacy module had been evaluated in a test environment that was not equivalent to the production environment. At the individual level, two programmers, one from the e-mail group and one from the development group, working together for the first time in a new environment and working under intense pressure to quickly fix a serious problem, failed to adequately test code they produced as a patch for the pharmacy application. Three groups within Kaiser had responsibilities for KP Online: operations, e-mail, and development. Traditionally these groups worked independently and had distinct missions and organizational cultures. The breach revealed the differences in the way groups approached priorities. For example, the development group often let meeting deadlines dictate priorities. At the organizational level, Kaiser IT had a very complex organizational structure, leading to what Collmann and Cooper (2007, p. 239) call “compartmentalized sensemaking.” Each IT group “developed highly localized definitions of a situation, which created the possibility for failure when integrated into a common infrastructure.”

Discussion Prompt Answer the following questions in 2-4 sentences

1. How serious was this e-mail security breach? Why did the Kaiser Permanente leadership react so quickly to mitigate the possible damage done by the breach?
2. Assume that you were appointed as the administrative member of the crisis team created the day the breach was uncovered. After the initial apologies, what recommendations would you make for investigating the root cause(s) of the breach? Outline your suggested investigative steps.
3. How likely do you think future security breaches would be if Kaiser Permanente did not take steps to resolve the underlying group and organizational issues? Why?
4. What role should the administrative leadership of Kaiser Permanente take in ensuring that KP Online is secure? Apart from security and HIPAA training for all personnel, what steps can be taken at the organizational level to improve the security of KP Online?

Copy and paste the following questions in the submit box below and find the location where the following information is found:

Give the line numbers where the hypothesis occurs.
Give the line numbers where the experiment is described.
Give the line numbers where the results are presented.
Do you see signs of pseudoscience in this article, if so, Give the line numbers. Briefly describe the graph:

1. 1 Pesticides suspected in mass die-off of bees Text excerpted from March 29, 2012|By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times

2. 2 Scientists have identified a new suspect in the mysterious die-off of bees in recent years � a class of

3. 3 pesticides that appear to be lethal in indirect ways. The chemicals, known as neonicotinoids, are designed

4. 4 to target a variety of sucking and chewing insects, including aphids and beetles. Bees are known to ingest

5. 5 the poison when they eat the pollen and nectar of treated plants, though in doses so tiny that it was not

6. 6 seen as a threat.

7. 7 A study published online Thursday by the journal Science indicate that the pesticides are not altogether

8. 8 benign. The study used miniature radio frequency chips to track honeybees and found that the pesticide

9. 9 impaired their ability to navigate back to the hive after a feeding expedition.

10. 10 Beekeepers became alarmed that honeybees were vanishing from their nests across the U.S. in the fall of

11. 11 2006 � victims of a perplexing and pervasive malady now known as colony collapse disorder that wiped

12. 12 out as many as 90% of bees, in some cases. Scientists don't know exactly why the ailment strikes, but

13. 13 they believe it results from a combination of habitat degradation, infection by pathogens and parasites and

14. 14 pesticide use. Researchers have also documented sharp declines in bumblebees, which are important crop

15. 15 pollinators but are not domesticated.

16. 16 Neonicotinoid pesticides were developed to eradicate insects without threatening mammals. The

17. 17 chemicals, which are incorporated into the tissues, leaves and flowers of plants, target the central nervous

18. 18 system, leading to paralysis and death. Farmers began using them in the early 1990s.

19. 19 Past studies have explored effects of neonicotinoids in the lab, finding that they might harm bees'

20. 20 memory, learning and orientation. But the new study is among the first to examine the pesticides' effects

21. 21 on bees under real-world conditions.

22. 22 The study led by researchers from the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, or INRA,

23. 23 focused on honeybees, which have been victimized by colony collapse disorder throughout the Northern

24. 24 Hemisphere.

25. 25 First they glued special radio frequency identification tags to the bees' thoraxes. Then they fed the bees

26. 26 sublethal doses of a neonicotinoid and monitored the insects as they attempted to return to the hive.

1. 27 The research team discovered that the "intoxicated" bees were about twice as likely as unexposed bees to

2. 28 die because they couldn't find their way home. Computer simulations suggested that these no-shows could

3. 29 cause hive populations to crash in a matter of weeks, said study coauthor Mickael Henry, a researcher at

4. 30 INRA in Avignon. The weakened colonies would be especially vulnerable to environmental

5. 31 stresses such as climate change or disease, he added.

32

1. 33 The new findings lend support to the notion that pesticides contribute to colony collapse, but

2. 34 leave open the likelihood that habitat destruction and illness play a role too, scientists said.

3. 35 "There are a whole lot of things that stress the honeybees," said Eric Mussen, a honeybee

4. 36 specialist at UC Davis. "You can't point your finger at one thing and say, 'That is the problem.' "

5. 37 Mussen cautioned against singling out neonicotinoids when other pesticides could have similar

6. 38 effects on bees. Besides, he said, many insects have built up immunity to neonicotinoids, so

7. 39 farmers are likely to switch to different pesticides anyway.

B: Bees released at a random location a kilometer away from the hive. Vertical axis shows relative number of bees returning to hive (1 = 100%)

Graph from: Henry, M., Beguin, M., Requier, F., Rollin, O., Odoux, J., Aupinel, P., Aptel, J., Tchamitchian, S., & Decourtye, A. (2012). A Common Pesticide Decreases Foraging Success and Survival in Honey Bees Science

Copy and paste the following questions in the submit box below and find the location where the following information is found:

Give the line numbers where the hypothesis occurs.
Give the line numbers where the experiment is described.
Give the line numbers where the results are presented.
Do you see signs of pseudoscience in this article, if so, Give the line numbers. Briefly describe the graph:

1. 1 Pesticides suspected in mass die-off of bees Text excerpted from March 29, 2012|By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times

2. 2 Scientists have identified a new suspect in the mysterious die-off of bees in recent years � a class of

3. 3 pesticides that appear to be lethal in indirect ways. The chemicals, known as neonicotinoids, are designed

4. 4 to target a variety of sucking and chewing insects, including aphids and beetles. Bees are known to ingest

5. 5 the poison when they eat the pollen and nectar of treated plants, though in doses so tiny that it was not

6. 6 seen as a threat.

7. 7 A study published online Thursday by the journal Science indicate that the pesticides are not altogether

8. 8 benign. The study used miniature radio frequency chips to track honeybees and found that the pesticide

9. 9 impaired their ability to navigate back to the hive after a feeding expedition.

10. 10 Beekeepers became alarmed that honeybees were vanishing from their nests across the U.S. in the fall of

11. 11 2006 � victims of a perplexing and pervasive malady now known as colony collapse disorder that wiped

12. 12 out as many as 90% of bees, in some cases. Scientists don't know exactly why the ailment strikes, but

13. 13 they believe it results from a combination of habitat degradation, infection by pathogens and parasites and

14. 14 pesticide use. Researchers have also documented sharp declines in bumblebees, which are important crop

15. 15 pollinators but are not domesticated.

16. 16 Neonicotinoid pesticides were developed to eradicate insects without threatening mammals. The

17. 17 chemicals, which are incorporated into the tissues, leaves and flowers of plants, target the central nervous

18. 18 system, leading to paralysis and death. Farmers began using them in the early 1990s.

19. 19 Past studies have explored effects of neonicotinoids in the lab, finding that they might harm bees'

20. 20 memory, learning and orientation. But the new study is among the first to examine the pesticides' effects

21. 21 on bees under real-world conditions.

22. 22 The study led by researchers from the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, or INRA,

23. 23 focused on honeybees, which have been victimized by colony collapse disorder throughout the Northern

24. 24 Hemisphere.

25. 25 First they glued special radio frequency identification tags to the bees' thoraxes. Then they fed the bees

26. 26 sublethal doses of a neonicotinoid and monitored the insects as they attempted to return to the hive.

1. 27 The research team discovered that the "intoxicated" bees were about twice as likely as unexposed bees to

2. 28 die because they couldn't find their way home. Computer simulations suggested that these no-shows could

3. 29 cause hive populations to crash in a matter of weeks, said study coauthor Mickael Henry, a researcher at

4. 30 INRA in Avignon. The weakened colonies would be especially vulnerable to environmental

5. 31 stresses such as climate change or disease, he added.

32

1. 33 The new findings lend support to the notion that pesticides contribute to colony collapse, but

2. 34 leave open the likelihood that habitat destruction and illness play a role too, scientists said.

3. 35 "There are a whole lot of things that stress the honeybees," said Eric Mussen, a honeybee

4. 36 specialist at UC Davis. "You can't point your finger at one thing and say, 'That is the problem.' "

5. 37 Mussen cautioned against singling out neonicotinoids when other pesticides could have similar

6. 38 effects on bees. Besides, he said, many insects have built up immunity to neonicotinoids, so

7. 39 farmers are likely to switch to different pesticides anyway.

B: Bees released at a random location a kilometer away from the hive. Vertical axis shows relative number of bees returning to hive (1 = 100%)

Graph from: Henry, M., Beguin, M., Requier, F., Rollin, O., Odoux, J., Aupinel, P., Aptel, J., Tchamitchian, S., & Decourtye, A. (2012). A Common Pesticide Decreases Foraging Success and Survival in Honey Bees Science

Copy and paste the following questions in the submit box below and find the location where the following information is found:

Give the line numbers where the hypothesis occurs.
Give the line numbers where the experiment is described.
Give the line numbers where the results are presented.
Do you see signs of pseudoscience in this article, if so, Give the line numbers. Briefly describe the graph:

1. 1 Pesticides suspected in mass die-off of bees Text excerpted from March 29, 2012|By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times

2. 2 Scientists have identified a new suspect in the mysterious die-off of bees in recent years � a class of

3. 3 pesticides that appear to be lethal in indirect ways. The chemicals, known as neonicotinoids, are designed

4. 4 to target a variety of sucking and chewing insects, including aphids and beetles. Bees are known to ingest

5. 5 the poison when they eat the pollen and nectar of treated plants, though in doses so tiny that it was not

6. 6 seen as a threat.

7. 7 A study published online Thursday by the journal Science indicate that the pesticides are not altogether

8. 8 benign. The study used miniature radio frequency chips to track honeybees and found that the pesticide

9. 9 impaired their ability to navigate back to the hive after a feeding expedition.

10. 10 Beekeepers became alarmed that honeybees were vanishing from their nests across the U.S. in the fall of

11. 11 2006 � victims of a perplexing and pervasive malady now known as colony collapse disorder that wiped

12. 12 out as many as 90% of bees, in some cases. Scientists don't know exactly why the ailment strikes, but

13. 13 they believe it results from a combination of habitat degradation, infection by pathogens and parasites and

14. 14 pesticide use. Researchers have also documented sharp declines in bumblebees, which are important crop

15. 15 pollinators but are not domesticated.

16. 16 Neonicotinoid pesticides were developed to eradicate insects without threatening mammals. The

17. 17 chemicals, which are incorporated into the tissues, leaves and flowers of plants, target the central nervous

18. 18 system, leading to paralysis and death. Farmers began using them in the early 1990s.

19. 19 Past studies have explored effects of neonicotinoids in the lab, finding that they might harm bees'

20. 20 memory, learning and orientation. But the new study is among the first to examine the pesticides' effects

21. 21 on bees under real-world conditions.

22. 22 The study led by researchers from the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, or INRA,

23. 23 focused on honeybees, which have been victimized by colony collapse disorder throughout the Northern

24. 24 Hemisphere.

25. 25 First they glued special radio frequency identification tags to the bees' thoraxes. Then they fed the bees

26. 26 sublethal doses of a neonicotinoid and monitored the insects as they attempted to return to the hive.

1. 27 The research team discovered that the "intoxicated" bees were about twice as likely as unexposed bees to

2. 28 die because they couldn't find their way home. Computer simulations suggested that these no-shows could

3. 29 cause hive populations to crash in a matter of weeks, said study coauthor Mickael Henry, a researcher at

4. 30 INRA in Avignon. The weakened colonies would be especially vulnerable to environmental

5. 31 stresses such as climate change or disease, he added.

32

1. 33 The new findings lend support to the notion that pesticides contribute to colony collapse, but

2. 34 leave open the likelihood that habitat destruction and illness play a role too, scientists said.

3. 35 "There are a whole lot of things that stress the honeybees," said Eric Mussen, a honeybee

4. 36 specialist at UC Davis. "You can't point your finger at one thing and say, 'That is the problem.' "

5. 37 Mussen cautioned against singling out neonicotinoids when other pesticides could have similar

6. 38 effects on bees. Besides, he said, many insects have built up immunity to neonicotinoids, so

7. 39 farmers are likely to switch to different pesticides anyway.

B: Bees released at a random location a kilometer away from the hive. Vertical axis shows relative number of bees returning to hive (1 = 100%)

Graph from: Henry, M., Beguin, M., Requier, F., Rollin, O., Odoux, J., Aupinel, P., Aptel, J., Tchamitchian, S., & Decourtye, A. (2012). A Common Pesticide Decreases Foraging Success and Survival in Honey Bees Science

H&M, a Fashion Giant, Has a Problem: $4.3 Billion in Unsold Clothes

In the world of fashion retailing, where shopping is fast moving online and stores try to keep inventories closely matched to sales, even a small stack of unsold clothes can be a bad sign. What about a $4.3 billion pile of shirts, dresses and accessories? That is the problem facing H&M, the Swedish fashion retailer, which is struggling with a mounting stack of unsold inventory.

H&M outlined the buildup in its latest quarterly report on Tuesday, prompting questions of whether the company is able to adapt to the fierce competition and changing consumer demands reshaping the global apparel market. Signs of its expanding unsold inventory began emerging last year, when it reported an unexpected quarterly drop in sales. The decline was the first in two decades, a period in which H&M expanded from a lone women’s wear store west of Stockholm to a gargantuan network of 4,700 stores around the world.

Foot traffic in the past year fell as customers eschewed crowded shop floors in favor of online shopping, or lower-cost offerings elsewhere, a challenge hitting a wide array of “fast fashion” retailers. On Tuesday, the company said the pile of unsold stock had grown 7 percent in the past year and was now worth nearly 35 billion Swedish kronor. The scale of the problem illustrates H&M’s vast size — as one of the world’s largest clothing manufacturers, it produces hundreds of millions of items each year. There are so many that a power plant in Vasteras, the town where H&M founded its first store, relies partly on burning defective products the retailer cannot sell to create energy.

Analysts have been pressing Karl-Johan Persson, the company’s chief executive, over the issue. Inventory levels were up, Mr. Persson said, because H&M was opening 220 new stores and expanding its e-commerce operations, and so needed to fill the racks. Critics, however, blamed poor inventory management and underwhelming product offerings, prompting once-loyal shoppers to take their wallets elsewhere. The company said operating profit fell 62 percent in the three months through February, sending its shares to their lowest closing price since 2005 on the Stockholm stock exchange.

It is the latest in a series of issues for H&M. The company had to close stores in South Africa and faced a social media backlash after it ran an ad in January showing a black child model wearing a hooded sweatshirt that said, “Coolest monkey in the jungle.” Also, it and other retailers in Europe are girding themselves for an expected push by Amazon into clothing retailing, one that Amazon has already been making in the United States.

Since the early 2000s, business has largely boomed for fast fashion retailers such as ASOS, H&M and Inditex, which owns Zara. They profited off their ability to generate, at a vast scale, rapid translations of runway fashions into low-priced clothing and accessories. But while luxury brands have enjoyed a rebound in fortunes in recent months, fueled by millennial appetite and a recovery in demand from the lucrative Chinese market, mass-market companies have had to deal with enormous changes. In the digital era, the challenges around offering trendy apparel before it goes out of style have mounted, particularly as growing numbers of shoppers choose to buy from their smartphones and become more quality conscious. ASOS is an online-only retailer, and Inditex has managed to ramp up its digital sales. But H&M, which also owns brands like Cos, & Other Stories and Arket, has fallen behind the pack.

Analysts have been downbeat on the Swedish company’s outlook. Rahul Sharma, founder of Neev Capital, called H&M “a slow-motion wreck” after the release of the first-quarter results. Analysts at the Swiss bank UBS said in a note to investors this month that they had come away from an H&M presentation in November “with no clear view on why focus on the core customer had been lost, and what was being done to fix it.” H&M has insisted it has a plan, saying it would slash prices to reduce the stockpile and slow its expansion in stores. It said it hoped its online business would expand 25 percent this year. Still, Mr. Persson, a grandson of H&M’s founder, acknowledged that the rapid transformation of the industry was weighing on his company. “The start of the year,” he said, “has been tough.”

10. How do the concepts of price sensitivity and elasticity of demand impact the sale of clothing & accessories at H&M. Explain your thinking with examples.

8. How H&M could leverage the use of technology to enhance its online and offline channels? List and briefly describe three trends that are currently having the greatest impact on the future of retailing.

6. H&M needs to work on their integrated marketing communications plan, they need to build out a plan for changing people’s behaviors and adding a larger audience. What do you believe are the three best tools for this? Explain how your various tools would work to capture the audience and what you would do to maximize profits. Please provide more details.

In the following problem, check that it is appropriate to use the normal approximation to the binomial. Then use the normal distribution to estimate the requested probabilities.

It is estimated that 3.5% of the general population will live past their 90th birthday. In a graduating class of 759 high school seniors, find the following probabilities. (Round your answers to four decimal places.)

(a) 15 or more will live beyond their 90th birthday


(b) 30 or more will live beyond their 90th birthday


(c) between 25 and 35 will live beyond their 90th birthday


(d) more than 40 will live beyond their 90th birthday

In the following problem, check that it is appropriate to use the normal approximation to the binomial. Then use the normal distribution to estimate the requested probabilities.

Ocean fishing for billfish is very popular in the Cozumel region of Mexico. In the Cozumel region about 47% of strikes (while trolling) resulted in a catch. Suppose that on a given day a fleet of fishing boats got a total of 27 strikes. Find the following probabilities. (Round your answers to four decimal places.)

(a) 12 or fewer fish were caught


(b) 5 or more fish were caught


(c) between 5 and 12 fish were caught

Based on long experience, an airline found that about 6% of the people making reservations on a flight from Miami to Denver do not show up for the flight. Suppose the airline overbooks this flight by selling 263 ticket reservations for an airplane with only 255 seats.

(a) What is the probability that a person holding a reservation will show up for the flight?


(b) Let n = 263 represent the number of ticket reservations. Let r represent the number of people with reservations who show up for the flight. What expression represents the probability that a seat will be available for everyone who shows up holding a reservation?

P(r ≥ 263)P(r ≤ 263)    P(r ≥ 255)P(r ≤ 255)

(c) Use the normal approximation to the binomial distribution and part (b) to answer the following question: What is the probability that a seat will be available for every person who shows up holding a reservation? (Round your answer to four decimal places.)

One environmental group did a study of recycling habits in a California community. It found that 74% of the aluminum cans sold in the area were recycled. (Use the normal approximation. Round your answers to four decimal places.)

(a) If 384 cans are sold today, what is the probability that 300 or more will be recycled?


(b) Of the 384 cans sold, what is the probability that between 260 and 300 will be recycled?

O.P., an unmarried 15-year-old high school student, finds herself pregnant by her 17-year-old boyfriend of several months. She estimates she is 10 weeks pregnant and visits a doctor to ask for an abortion.

O.P.’s parents have made it very clear that they would no longer allow her to live at home and would withdraw all financial support were she to become pregnant before marriage. O.P. has always aspired to attend college and graduate school. Her family knows about her relationship with the young man but they are unaware of its sexual nature. In her country, the law requires parental consent in all health care services for minors under the age of 16 years. It also provides for abortion for any woman upon request, up to 12 weeks of pregnancy. However, the doctor refuses to perform an abortion for O.P. unless one of her parents provides consent for the procedure.

Questions for discussion

What are the medical issues in this case? Specifically:

What are the health risks and benefits of a termination procedure at 10 weeks’ gestation?

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How do these risks change if the procedure is delayed for a further 4–6 weeks?

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What are the health risks if this girl undergoes an unsafe abortion?

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What are the likely health and social outcomes of a pregnancy for this 15-year old?

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How does the law in the United States recognize the principles of evolving capacity or best interest of the child as it applies to medical care?

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How do your responses to the above questions guide your support of O.P.’s decision-making authority free from parental consent?

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What is autonomy?

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What are ethics?