Question 1

A) Complete the missing data on the table

B) What is the selling price of a laptop case explain your answer

c) What is the profit maximizing level of output for this firm explain your answer

d) create a graph using three columns of data on the table to illustrate the profit maximizing level of output. insert a graph in your Microsoft word study exercise document for submission do not submit a separate file for the graph

Alternative Water Supply

Gordon Rivers, the city manager of Saratoga, Florida, pitched the proposed design schedule back at Jay Andrews. Jay Andrews is the Project Manager for Major Design Corporation (MDC). The city of Saratoga selected MDC for this project. As project manager, it is Jay’s responsibility to assemble the technical team necessary to complete the project, develop and track the budget, establish and maintain the schedule, allocate resources as required, and manage the project until completion.

“We need the intake and transmission main designed, bid, and completed in 35 weeks. The city of Saratoga has a future $2 million dollar federal grant riding on the project getting done on time,” Mr. Rivers said. Jay nodded in agreement. Mr. Rivers continued by saying, “Jay, the project needs to come in on schedule and within the budget. Now take this schedule back and figure out how we are going to do it.”

Background Major Design Corporation is a 3,500-employee firm with annual revenues of more than $1 billion. The firm is divided into five geographically based global sales divisions, an engineering/technical services division based in the United States, and a wholly owned construction company. MDC offers full services—consulting, engineering, construction, and operations—across the “project life cycle” for water, environment, transportation, energy, and facility resources.

MDC was selected by the city of Saratoga to design a new, 10-million-gallon-per-day surface water intake and transmission main. The intake withdraws water from a canal and pumps it more than two miles to the city’s wastewater treatment plant. There, the canal water is blended with reclaimed water (i.e., treated sewage water) and distributed back to customers for irrigation purposes. This project is touted as an “alternative” water supply project because the water source is not a historically used source. The project will increase the long-term sustainability of the city because it will diversify the city’s water supply portfolio and recycle water. The project will also minimize the need for additional withdrawals from historic water sources, which have become less productive and more highly regulated in the past 10 years, as the city’s population continues to grow. Other green benefits of the project include reduced environmental impacts on the historic water sources and a reduced carbon footprint, as the irrigation water requires less energy-intensive treatment than the city’s other drinkable water sources.

Project Description The objective of the project is to design a fully functional surface water intake that is protective of the environment, will last at least 30 years, and will have a low life-cycle cost (i.e., capital, maintenance, and energy consumption). For this type of project, engineering design accounts for 20 percent of total project cost. The design stage is also important because the decisions made during design lock in 80 percent or more of the life-cycle costs of the project. As a result, engineers take a holistic approach when selecting equipment and features for projects. A piece of equipment, for example, that is inexpensive upfront may have significant, long-term maintenance costs.

The following narrative describes the main activities required to complete the AWS project. The table below provides project work activities, precedence relationships, and costs.

Alternative Water Supply

The project will begin with the development of a conceptual design (Activity A). During the conceptual design, engineers confirm the applicable regulations and laws for the project, including sustainability criteria; perform evaluations of alternative equipment; identify site conditions and constraints; and develop initial facility and equipment layouts.

Once the conceptual design is complete and MDC has received feedback on it from the city of Saratoga, preliminary design (B) begins. Preliminary design expands the design based on the preferences and constraints identified during the conceptual design. The preliminary design finalizes the project design criteria (e.g., sizing, operational capacity, reliability, and sustainability) and incorporates them (along with additional geotechnical, survey, and environmental findings) into preliminary drawings and written specifications. Drawings and specifications are the key information-intensive products that come out of this work. The drawings show how the project will look when constructed, and the specifications provide detailed guidance and criteria by which the construction is to proceed.

For this project, the completion of the preliminary design allows three other parallel tasks to begin: final design (C), environmental permit application preparation (D), and property acquisition (H). Final design is a continuation of the preliminary design stage. In final design, additional information is added to the specifications.

Environmental permit application preparation (D) involves taking certain drawings from the preliminary design and modifying them to illustrate the controls included in the project to minimize environmental impacts. To receive a permit, the engineers must demonstrate that the project will have little to no impact on the environment and be constructed in accordance with applicable laws. Typical impacts engineers try to prevent include storm water runoff from the site, pollutant discharges from the site, uncontrolled emissions from equipment, destruction of natural habitats, and displacement of endangered species. Once the environmental permit application is complete, it is submitted to a regulatory agency for review. This activity, identified as environmental permit review and approval (E), does not require any work on the part of the MDC engineers, but cannot be crashed because an outside entity is responsible for it.

Property acquisition (H) starts with the identification of all properties on which the project sits or passes through. For the properties identified that the city doesn’t currently own, the city must acquire rights to use the properties. There are two ways the city can obtain these rights. The first is to find a willing seller—a property owner who, for a price, will turn over certain property rights to the city. The second is through condemnation. Condemnation is a lengthy legal process by which the city can take the property rights from the owner by demonstrating to a court that the project serves the public good and that there are no other viable alternatives.

Upon approval of the environmental permit, the engineers can begin work on preparing the building permit application (F). This task involves filling out the application form and compiling the necessary sheets from the drawing set to illustrate that the project will be constructed to the latest local, state, and federal building codes. When the application has been completed, it is submitted to the appropriate government entities for building permit review and approval (G). During the review, the MDC engineer is not required to do any work, but, similar to the environmental permit, nothing can be done to make the review go quicker because it is done by an outside party.

When the final design is complete and the building permit issued, the city can bid the project (I). Bidding the project involves advertising the project in the local newspaper and online. Contractors interested in building the project obtain a copy of the project drawings and specifications from the city. Based on what they see in the drawings and how they interpret the specifications, each interested contractor then develops a bid that will be low enough to win the project while still allowing for a reasonable profit. During the bidding stage, MDC will assist the city by responding to contractor questions, holding a meeting to discuss the project with potential contractors (known as pre-bid meetings), and holding site visits of the actual construction site so the contractors can get a better understanding of the conditions they will face if they win the job. At the end of the bidding period, the contractors submit their bids in sealed envelopes to the city of Saratoga.

The city opens the bids and compares the submissions. The apparent low bid will be sent to MDC for review. MDC will review both the dollar amount of the bid and the other documents (e.g., drawings, references, insurance, specifications, and bonds) included in the submittal. If a low bidder has not completed the other documents properly, it is deemed non-responsive, and the engineer begins review of the next lowest bid. This process continues until the lowest responsive bidder is identified. The bid phase ends with MDC’s recommendation to the city as to which qualified contractor should be awarded the job.

Immediately following the bid phase, as long as the building permit has been issued, construction can start (J). This dummy activity has an activity time of zero. The construction start is a milestone that designates the end of the engineering design phase of the project and the beginning of the construction phase (another project).

Decisions

Jay manages about six engineering projects at any one time, so he asks you to analyze this project for ways to complete it in 35 weeks. Jay would like to meet with you tomorrow to discuss the results of your analysis.

Deliverables

1. Draw the project network diagram, and determine the normal time to complete the project, activity slack times, the critical path(s), and total project costs (i.e., baseline your project), using the Critical Path Method.

2. Determine the best way to crash the project to complete it in 35 weeks with revised activity slack times, critical path(s), and total project costs. Provide reasoning as to how all crashing decisions were made.

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Jimmy Buffet, Warren's more famous brother, is considering manufacturing a new, super-tough flipflop that is both strong enough to survive piercing by small metal objects, thereby preventing its wearers from cutting their heels, and heat-resistant to protect its wearers from super-high pavement and sand temperatures. Manufacturing equipment and the initial licenses for manufacturing cost $200,000. Success of the new product depends crucially on whether global warming is accelerating (40% probability) or simply increasing at its past rate (60% probability). If global warming accelerates, then temperatures will be much higher and more people will live in tropical climates will want the shoes, and cash flows will be $50,000 per year for 10 years. If global warming continues at its most recent rate, then about the same number of people will be near beaches and there won't be a need for heat-resistant shoes, and cash flows will be $20,000 for 10 years. Buffet's cost of capital is 10%  

Suppose that Buffet can wait a year and find out whether global warming is accelerating or progressing at the current rate before deciding to invest. If he waits, the initial cost will still be the same as above (this is known with certainty) and he will know whether the up cash flows will occur or the down cash flows will occur before deciding whether to invest. The risk-free rate is 4% and this is the discount rate for the initial investment.       

7. Using a decision tree analysis, find the expected NPV of the project if Buffet waits to invest and only invests if it is optimal to do so.         

a.           26,143

b.           28,757

c.           31,633

d.           34,796

e.           38,276

8. Buffet would like to use a financial option to value the embedded real option. Identify the value today of the underlying asset. That is, calculate P that would be used in the option pricing model.

a.           162,132

b.           170,239

c.           178,751

d.           187,689

e.           197,073

The answers are in bold, but I do not understand how to get these answers.

Cost of Quality and Value-Added/Non-Value-Added Reports for a Service Company

Three Rivers Inc. provides cable TV and Internet service to the local community. The activities and activity costs of Three Rivers are identified as follows:

a. Identify the cost of quality classification for each activity and whether the activity is value-added or non-value-added.

b. Prepare a cost of quality report. Assume that sales are $3,550,000. If required, round percentages to one decimal place.

c. Prepare a value-added/non-value-added analysis.

d. What percentage of total costs of quality are considered to be value-added?
72.0%

Suppose a typical Canadian consumer purchases three goods, creatively named good A, good B, and good C. The prices of these goods are listed in the table below.

Instructions: Round your answers to two decimal places.

a. If the typical consumer purchases two units of each good, the percentage increase in the price paid by the consumer for this basket between 2018 and 2019 is -----%

b. If the typical consumer purchases 10 units of good B and 2 units of both good A and good C, the percentage increase in the price paid by the consumer for this basket is ----- %.

c. The percentage change in price is:

Consider a bond that has a $10,000 face value and a coupon rate of 4%.

Show the expression to find the price and find the price in each of the following cases:

1. The bond has one year to maturity and the interest rate is 3%.

2. The bond has one year to maturity and the interest rate is 5%.

3. The bond has two years to maturity and the interest rate is 3%.

4. The bond has two years to maturity and the interest rate is 5%.

5. Compute the percentage change in the price for the one-year bond as the interest rate rises from 3% to 5%.

6. Compute the percentage change in the price for the two-year bond as the interest rate rises from 3% to 5%.

7. Are your results consistent with the fact that a change in the interest rate reduces the price by a larger percentage for long term bonds than for short term bonds?

In an effort to cut costs and improve profits, any US companies have been turning to outsourcing. In fact, according to "Purchasing" magazine, 54% of companies surveyed outsourced some part of their manufacturing process in the past two to three years. Suppose 555 of these companies are contacted.

a) What is the probability that 338 or more companies outsourced some part of their manufacturing process in the past two or three years? Write your answer as a percentage rounded to two decimal places.

b) What is the probability that 285 or more companies outsourced some part of their manufacturing process in the past two or three years? Write your answer as a percentage rounded to two decimal places.

c) What is the probability that 48% or less of these companies outsourced some part of their manufacturing process in the past two or three years? Write your answer as a percentage rounded to two decimal places.

Assume that human body temperatures are normally distributed with a mean of

98.19 degrees Upper F98.19°F

and a standard deviation of

0.61 degrees Upper F0.61°F.

a. A hospital uses

100.6 degrees Upper F100.6°F

as the lowest temperature considered to be a fever. What percentage of normal and healthy persons would be considered to have a​ fever? Does this percentage suggest that a cutoff of

100.6 degrees Upper F100.6°F

is​ appropriate?

b. Physicians want to select a minimum temperature for requiring further medical tests. What should that temperature​ be, if we want only​ 5.0% of healthy people to exceed​ it? (Such a result is a false​ positive, meaning that the test result is​ positive, but the subject is not really​ sick.)

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a. The percentage of normal and healthy persons considered to have a fever is

nothing​%.

Sex-linked Punnett Squares (hint: 1-5 comes directly from your lecture)

1) What would be the genotype of a man with hemophelia? ____________

2) What would be the genotype of a woman who is a carrier for hemophelia? ___________

3) What would be the genotype of a man without hemophelia? ____________

4) What would be the genotype of a woman who has hemophelia? ____________

5) What would be the genotype of a woman who has no trace of hemophelia? _________

6) A woman with hemophelia mates with a man without hemophelia. Set up the punnett square.

a. What percentage of the children will have hemophelia? _________

b. What percentage of the children are women who are carriers? _________

7) A man with hemophelia mates with a woman without hemophelia and isn’t a carrier. Complete a punnett square for this example.

a. What percentage of their offspring will be a carrier for hemophelia? ________

b. If they have any male children will they have hemophelia? ________

Sex-linked Punnett Squares (hint: 1-5 comes directly from your lecture)

1) What would be the genotype of a man with hemophelia? ____________

2) What would be the genotype of a woman who is a carrier for hemophelia? ___________

3) What would be the genotype of a man without hemophelia? ____________

4) What would be the genotype of a woman who has hemophelia? ____________

5) What would be the genotype of a woman who has no trace of hemophelia? _________

6) A woman with hemophelia mates with a man without hemophelia. Set up the punnett square.

a. What percentage of the children will have hemophelia? _________

b. What percentage of the children are women who are carriers? _________

7) A man with hemophelia mates with a woman without hemophelia and isn’t a carrier. Complete a punnett square for this example.

a. What percentage of their offspring will be a carrier for hemophelia? ________

b. If they have any male children will they have hemophelia? ________