Question 1:

Read the following situations and decide if the situation described is a symptom or a problem. If it is a symptom, provide an example of what the underlying problem might be. If it is a problem, provide an example of what symptom we might see.

Alcatel, a flip-phone manufacturer, discovers its phone's features are viewed as inadequate by target consumers.
Abercrombie & Fitch discovers its sales are falling short of its goals.
Time Warner Cable discovers its customer satisfaction scores declined for the third year in a row.
PacSun discovers its advertisements during Golden Girls reruns are not reaching its target market.

What role does exploratory research play in the marketing research process? How does exploratory research differ from other forms of marketing research?

Corporate Financial Management:The Equity Markets

10. a. XYZ Plc is growing quickly. Dividends are expected to grow at a 30 per cent rate for the next three years, with the growth rate falling off to a constant 6 per cent thereafter. If the required return is 13 per cent and the company just paid a €1.80 dividend, what is the current share price?

2. XYZ Corp will pay a €4 dividend next year on its common stock, which is currently selling at €100 per share. What is the required rate of return on this investment if the dividend is expected to grow at 5% forever?

3. Sometimes, a supernormal growth pattern is observed in stock prices. How is the supernormal growth pattern likely to vary from the normal, constant growth pattern? What kind of firms tend to experience the supernormal growth pattern?

1. Case and Deaton (2015) note that morbidity and mortality rates have recently increased for U.S. white, non-Hispanics, ages 45-54. This runs opposite the general trend of falling death rates among other demographic groups and across other developed countries.

   1. (a) What are the main causes of death that the authors find have been increasing for this demo- graphic group (U.S. whites ages 45-54)?

   2. (b) Given the cited causes of death, offer one possible explanation or cause of this trend in mortality and morbidity among whites ages 45-54.

   3. (c) Make a specific suggestion for how you could use data to test if your suggested explanation in (b) is a driving force behind this trend. Briefly explain your proposed method.

Question 1

Identify business processes from your own experience that may have been competitive at some stage, but which seem at this point to be unnecessarily complex or outdated given what competitors offer?

Question 2

Consider the following list and indicate which of these you would consider as process redesign initiatives. Motivate your answer and, if applicable, provide the links to the elements discussed.

An airline has seen its profits falling over the past year. It decides start a marketing campaign among its corporate clients in the hope that it can extend its profitable freight business.

A governmental agency notices that it is structurally late to respond to citizen’s queries. It decides to assign a manager to oversee this particular process and mandates her to take appropriate counter actions.

1- brilliant colors in fireworks are due to electrons within the colorant chemicals

a) mixing with water in the atmosphere

b) reacting with the ozone layer

c) falling back to the ground state

2- the electron of an atom that play an important part in the formation of compounds are usually those

a) the d subshell

b) an incomplete inner (inside) enegy level

c) a complete inner (inside) enegy level

d) a complete outer enegy level

e) an incomplete outer enegy level

3- what type(s) of intermolecular forces are present in ethanol? CH3 CH2 OH

a) London Dispersion forces

b) Hydrogen Bonding

c) Ionic bonding

d) Dipole-Dipole interaction

e) London Dispersion forces, Dipole-Dipole interaction & Hydrogen Bonding.

The polling organization Ipsos conducted telephone surveys in March of 2004, 2005 and 2006. In each year, 1001 people age 18 or older were asked about whether they planned to use a credit card to pay federal income taxes that year. The data are given in the accompanying table. Is there evidence that the proportion falling in the three credit card response categories is not the same for all three years? Test the relevant hypotheses using a .05 significance level. (Use 2 decimal places.)

χ² =  
P-value interval

p < 0.0010.001 ≤ p < 0.01    0.01 ≤ p < 0.050.05 ≤ p < 0.10p ≥ 0.10

. You read in the newspaper that rocks from Mars have been found on Earth. Your friend says that

the rocks were shot off Mars by the large volcanoes there. You are skeptical so you decide to

calculate the magnitude of the velocity that volcanoes eject rocks from geological evidence. You

know the gravitational acceleration of objects falling near the surface of Mars is only 40% that on

the Earth. You can look up the height of Martian volcanoes and determine the distance rocks from

a volcano hit the ground from pictures of the Martian surface. If you assume the rocks farthest

from a volcano were ejected at an angle of 45 degrees, what is the magnitude of the rock's

velocity as a function of its distance from the volcano and the height of the volcano for the rock

furthest from the volcano?

During launches, rockets often discard unneeded parts. A certain rocket starts from rest on the launch pad and accelerates upward at a steady 3.05 m/s^2 . When it is 260 m above the launch pad, it discards a used fuel canister by simply disconnecting it. Once it is disconnected, the only force acting on the canister is gravity (air resistance can be ignored).

A.   How high is the rocket when the canister hits the launch pad, assuming that the rocket does not change its acceleration?

B. What total distance did the canister travel between its release and its crash onto the launch pad? This includes the distance the canister travels while going up plus the distance it travels while falling back to the ground.

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Hi! I need it in android studio and in java

Design a game app “BouncingBall ” in which the user’s goal is to prevent a bouncing ball from falling off the bottom of the screen. When the user presses the start button, a ball bounces off the top, left and right sides (the “walls”) of the screen. A horizontal bar on the bottom of the screen serves as a paddle to prevent the ball from hitting the bottom of the screen. The ball can bounce off the paddle, but not the bottom of the screen. Allow the user to drag the paddle left and right. If the ball hits the paddle, it bounces up, and the game continues. If the ball hits the bottom, the game ends. Decrease the paddle’s width every 25 seconds and increase the speed of the ball to make the game more challenging. (BONUS 10 points: Consider adding obstacles at the random location).

Hi! I need it in android studio and in java

Design a game app “BouncingBall ” in which the user’s goal is to prevent a bouncing ball from falling off the bottom of the screen. When the user presses the start button, a ball bounces off the top, left and right sides (the “walls”) of the screen. A horizontal bar on the bottom of the screen serves as a paddle to prevent the ball from hitting the bottom of the screen. The ball can bounce off the paddle, but not the bottom of the screen. Allow the user to drag the paddle left and right. If the ball hits the paddle, it bounces up, and the game continues. If the ball hits the bottom, the game ends. Decrease the paddle’s width every 25 seconds and increase the speed of the ball to make the game more challenging. (BONUS 10 points: Consider adding obstacles at the random location).